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As continues the trend, people constantly write off the next improvement in AI as "not that big of a deal" or "not actually AI because X" or "underwhelming". I
by leesec 8y ago
As continues the trend, people constantly write off the next improvement in AI as "not that big of a deal" or "not actually AI because X" or "underwhelming". I suspect they'll be doing this all the way up until AGI.
- squeaky-clean 8y agoIt's underwhelming because the titles are misleading, not because the achievements aren't impressive. Beating humans by outhinking them and still using human-like reflexes and all game resources available is like 1000-cool-points, and beating them as they are now is 500-cool-points. Yes it's an incredible achievement, but they get you into the article with a misleading line, and so it's to be expected that all of your hype is deflated as you read, rather than building up your excitement. I just with they'd be honest about the shortcomings in their AI. It's like the joke from Futurama about why humans don't watch the Robot Blernsball League (basically future-baseball). Bender: Now Wireless Joe Jackson - there was a blern-hitting machine. Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns. Wireless Joe Jackson was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels. Bender: Oh, and I suppose Pitch-o-Mat 5000 was just a modified howitzer! Leela: Yep.
- 0x262d 8y agoyou realize this is qualitatively, fundamentally different from that, right... how about this prediction: people will be suggesting that their machine learning models are a big step towards AGI, forever.