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People often pick something easily categorised for these comparisons, which seem to often be tasks ideally suited for the current direction of automation. A com
by EliRivers 7y ago
People often pick something easily categorised for these comparisons, which seem to often be tasks ideally suited for the current direction of automation. A computer will never beat a human at chess. Go. Starcraft. Super Mario. Something else with a clear and simple set of inputs and outputs, and a fairly easy "goodness" measure.
Simply thinking out loud, take a human player skilled in chess and Deepmind's chess player, and ask them both if we could teach a badger to drive a school bus, and what changes we'd need to make to the bus and the badger and the system around it; facetious as I'm being, this is the kind of situation in which I don't see AI making any qualitative inroads, which humans remain good at - massively out-of-context problems.
As an aside, on the sbject of "true intelligence" or "general intelligence"; I'm not convinced there's any such thing, and if there is, I'm even less convinced that humans have it.
- shawnz 7y agoAlphaStar might have played 200 years of StarCraft, but we have been playing the general intelligence game for 50,000+ years.
- EliRivers 7y agoAnd we suck at it! :)
- ergothus 7y agotime for me to insert my pet theory: consciousness (and the higher-level awareness that feeds general intelligence) costs calories. Thus, we are evolved to MINIMIZE THE NEED. We like to think of ourselves as self-aware, and we can be...but most of the time we're in a lower state. When this near-lizard-brain state runs into something it doesn't have a preprogrammed response to, consciousness is engaged. We figure out how to respond to such situations...and we shut down again. Once we learn to break this cycle, a great many wonders and horrors will be unleashed as we wrestle with what to do with a larger quantity of time being AWARE. I myself am terrified that I don't get bored the way I used to as a kid. I assume this is because my lower-awareness self has plenty of pre-programmed tasks to manage and my higher awareness just doesn't get activated nearly as much.
- tempestn 7y agoDid you read the defense of boredom article that hit the homepage a couple days ago?