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The dirty secret though is that AI isn't doing anything nearly comparable to what a whole human brain is doing. It's performing the functions of perhaps a smal
by pharke 7y ago
The dirty secret though is that AI isn't doing anything nearly comparable to what a whole human brain is doing. It's performing the functions of perhaps a small subset of NNs in the brain or maybe the equivalent of what a small rodent's brain is capable of doing. Obstacle avoidance, route planning, categorizing objects in vision, even language related functions are more of a mapping than an understanding. I think the point still stands that we're making very inefficient use of the hardware that we have. Universities need to be smarter about this and figure out how such a limited network of squishy cells do all the things they do, that's the whole point of concentrating smart people in an environment where they're given the freedom to pursue ideas without worrying about whether or not it generates a profit. You learn the 'how' and the 'why' rather than just the 'what makes money'.
- thrower123 7y agoMost AI is doing overly complicated versions of plain old decision trees or just pattern matching. Or in the worst cases they are presenting one thing, and really just relying on hundreds or thousands of people in Bangalore to pore through the data sets and tag and categorize.
- electrograv 7y agoOf course, and we’re already seeing incredible results, even from size-compressed deep neural networks running on custom acceleration hardware embedded now in most major smartphones. I was simply responding to the parent post’s false claim (”The human brain doesn’t use a billion dollars in compute power, figure out what it is doing.”), in isolation from the rest of the post (which I generally agree with).
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y ago"Dirty secret" is a weird term for something practitioners and researchers are trying to tell anyone who will listen. It's a dirty secret on the marketing side.