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> We're decades away from anything that will resemble an AI system I use my Google Home Mini every day and it's just like the computer in Star Trek. If you cou
by aianus 7y ago
> We're decades away from anything that will resemble an AI system
I use my Google Home Mini every day and it's just like the computer in Star Trek. If you could show it to someone from the early 90s they would certainly say it resembles an AI system.
- barbecue_sauce 7y agoGoogle Home is basically the text parser of an early Sierra adventure game with voice recognition in front of it and the internet in back of it.
- ekianjo 7y agoIt's not, it's a toolchain that has voice recognition, a NLP parser, and a big model to give you answers back that fails for anything remotely like a complex sentence. It's decent, but nothing like an intelligent being that can answer all types of questions like in most SF stories.
- why_only_15 7y agoThis is just pushing the meaning of "artificial intelligence" farther up the chain because we understand it better. If you told someone in 1950 computers would be able to win 100 times out of 100 against the best humans in the world, they would call that artificial intelligence. Now we just say it's a MCTS system based on heavily tuned heuristics.
- rodw 7y agoI have travelled here from the early 90s and I gotta say it seems more like a parlor trick (voice recognition plus a much larger, more sophisticated, networked Eliza) than true AI. But that's the AI problem in a nutshell: Once we've figured out how to do something it no longer seems like an AI problem. The computer in Star Trek is just a smart speaker. Lt. Cmdr. Data is AI.