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This idea that we’re close to some runaway superintelligence has been a theme through the history of AI. I look at AI today and I see some powerful techniques f

This idea that we’re close to some runaway superintelligence has been a theme through the history of AI. I look at AI today and I see some powerful techniques for optimization and categorization. There’s still an enormous leap we need to make before we’re making something that has the autonomous intelligence of a fly. We’re at least 20 years away from the first signs of real intelligence—the biggest problem is that we keep trying to engineer it rather than reverse engineer it.

darawk 8y ago
> There’s still an enormous leap we need to make before we’re making something that has the autonomous intelligence of a fly. I mostly agree with your broader point, but why do you believe this? It seems to me we've built machines substantially more intelligent than flies, but it's a hard thing to measure.
pas 8y ago
Not a fly, but we're getting there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejf6FwIibkE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejf6FwIibkE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2OBznK6HkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2OBznK6HkI FlyConnectome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKaeTH7UgFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKaeTH7UgFA https://v2.virtualflybrain.org/ https://v2.virtualflybrain.org/ recent openworm state: https://twitter.com/tarelli/status/959077915597172736?lang=en https://twitter.com/tarelli/status/959077915597172736?lang=e...
tim333 8y ago
The Waymo self driving cars seems more intelligent than some flies I've known. At least I hope they don't keep crashing into windows unable to figure their way out.