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Those who are thinking that AI is being overly hyped, and that the demos like these are not smart enough, think about it, today's AI is smarter enough IMO, as t
by murukesh_s 9y ago
Those who are thinking that AI is being overly hyped, and that the demos like these are not smart enough, think about it, today's AI is smarter enough IMO, as the potential of real-world applications of AI as of now itself could be vast. It just need some practical polished implementations. Did the Dota 2 bot learn the game from scratch by learning the rules all by itself? No, as evident from the post itself - "small amounts of “coaching” with self-play. But think about it. It need not be that smart to replace humans. IMO, many of our jobs do not need to very complicated self-learning. In real world day-day jobs like agriculture, factories, and to a great extend what we call as skilled labour like driving, management etc, the kind of work is often repetitive. AI is already better than humans at recognising speech, vision and to some extend languages. Combining these skills with mechanical robots in a meaningful way can easily replace what we, as humans can do, except in niche fields. Even there computer can offload our job in several ways. Robots/AI can do it much much faster, and much more efficient than us and it will only be getting better and better with overall advancement in research and the amount of data available..
So it's kind of interesting and equally scary that we are looking at a potential future, possibly near, where most of the work can be handled by a trained robot with humans only supervising them in exceptional cases. Robots can then could be only need to be smart enough to alert the human supervisors when they reach a state where they cannot perform the job normally, for e.g. power grid going off in a factory and they couldn't figure out what to do, it could only be a 0.001 % chance. The point is AI need not get as good as humans in learning complex scenarios to replace majority of us, it just need to do 99% of what we repeatedly do, much better than us.