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For me, the tl;dr on the entire subject of the Singularity can be summarized as: "...the field of artificial intelligence has a long history of over-promising
by numair 11y ago
For me, the tl;dr on the entire subject of the Singularity can be summarized as:
"...the field of artificial intelligence has a long history of over-promising and under-delivering..."
That being said, I think we are finally at the dawn of "useful AI," like when my iPhone correctly guesses where I am headed and gives me a time estimate. For normal humans such as myself, this is WAY cooler and more exciting.
- romaniv 11y ago>That being said, I think we are finally at the dawn of "useful AI" Were AI systems that outperformed humans in solving complex differential and integral equations useless? Were systems that diagnosed diseases better than doctors useless? Were systems that handled logistics at scale never possible before useless? All of those were created in the past (60s, 70s, 80s). The problem with AI was never the lack of results. It was the hype that far exceeded the results, however useful and practical they were.