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This argument has been made at every step in the evolution of AI. For a long time, AI would "arrive" if it could beat a human in chess. Then it did and suddenl
by bo1024 9y ago
This argument has been made at every step in the evolution of AI.
For a long time, AI would "arrive" if it could beat a human in chess. Then it did and suddenly that became a gimmick, a trick of computation.
30 or 20 years ago, picture (if you can) how we would have viewed this technology: someone verbally telling a pocket-sized device to make an appointment and order groceries, asking it for facts or directions, etc. It would have seemed more like magic than feasible AI.
Today it's a "gimmick". The bar for AI always rises to beyond whatever we're currently comfortable with, and the bar for "strong AI" doubly so.
- bamboozled 9y agoParadoxically this argument is made every time someone refutes the idea that AI is making progress.
- ColanR 9y agoIt's probably because at every step, we always think that only a strong AI could solve the puzzle. So, when someone manages to make a not-strong-AI solve it, we say they worked around the implicit rules and created a 'hack'.