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The most numerous robot in the world is a vacuum cleaner. Autonomous cars are seeing huge investment. Basic needs are gradually being addressed, but it’s true

The most numerous robot in the world is a vacuum cleaner. Autonomous cars are seeing huge investment. Basic needs are gradually being addressed, but it’s true that you don’t see it. As soon as something robotic works, people forget about it, and this is how it should be.

est31 8y ago
Relevant comic: http://www.artificial-intelligence.com/comic/7 http://www.artificial-intelligence.com/comic/7
- stcredzero 8y ago
  But give it a humanoid form, a menacing mechanical voice, a bad attitude, and a zap gun, and the skepticism is much reduced!
- philwelch 8y ago
  Yup. For example, GPT-2, a new machine learning program that can reliably produce realistic middle-school-C-student-level text based on minimal prompts, has faced similar criticism: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-g... Quote: > A machine learning researcher writes me in response to yesterday’s post, saying: >> I still think GPT-2 is a brute-force statistical pattern matcher which blends up the internet and gives you back a slightly unappetizing slurry of it when asked. > I resisted the urge to answer “Yeah, well, your mom is a brute-force statistical pattern matcher which blends up the internet and gives you back a slightly unappetizing slurry of it when asked.” > But I think it would have been true. The better we get at AI, the more we understand how AI works, and the more we can say, "that's not AI, that's just an algorithm that does <insert explanation of how the algorithm works>". OK, but there has to be some mechanism to how our brains work, right? How do we know we aren't just implementing shitty approximations of that mechanism?
ip26 8y ago
Do you refer to roombas or the classic upright vacuum? Because it's hard to consider the latter anything other than a machine or appliance. It has one button, one function, two states, and is controlled by a human.
- robotresearcher 8y ago
  Roombas. Millions have been sold, plus millions of third party clones.

est31 8y ago

Relevant comic: http://www.artificial-intelligence.com/comic/7 http://www.artificial-intelligence.com/comic/7

stcredzero 8y ago
But give it a humanoid form, a menacing mechanical voice, a bad attitude, and a zap gun, and the skepticism is much reduced!
philwelch 8y ago
Yup. For example, GPT-2, a new machine learning program that can reliably produce realistic middle-school-C-student-level text based on minimal prompts, has faced similar criticism: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-g... Quote: > A machine learning researcher writes me in response to yesterday’s post, saying: >> I still think GPT-2 is a brute-force statistical pattern matcher which blends up the internet and gives you back a slightly unappetizing slurry of it when asked. > I resisted the urge to answer “Yeah, well, your mom is a brute-force statistical pattern matcher which blends up the internet and gives you back a slightly unappetizing slurry of it when asked.” > But I think it would have been true. The better we get at AI, the more we understand how AI works, and the more we can say, "that's not AI, that's just an algorithm that does <insert explanation of how the algorithm works>". OK, but there has to be some mechanism to how our brains work, right? How do we know we aren't just implementing shitty approximations of that mechanism?

ip26 8y ago

Do you refer to roombas or the classic upright vacuum? Because it's hard to consider the latter anything other than a machine or appliance. It has one button, one function, two states, and is controlled by a human.

robotresearcher 8y ago
Roombas. Millions have been sold, plus millions of third party clones.