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>Wonder what the real world impact of this will be. Not much, I expect. Here's a thought experiment I use to imagine the impact of AI: Imagine you've got a mi
by _iyig 7y ago
>Wonder what the real world impact of this will be. Not much, I expect.
Here's a thought experiment I use to imagine the impact of AI:
Imagine you've got a million people at your disposal. At zero cost and with no downtime, these people can remotely operate robots, understand text, interact using natural language, or classify objects in images, all with human-level intelligence and accuracy. Now what?
Obviously there are areas where AI can outperform humans, like mechanical accuracy and mathematical computation. But in general, I find this experiment works pretty well.
- tomp 7y agoNow imagine doing crowd control. 10 frames per second, 100k people, if you need just 1 second to recognize a face, you’ve just saturated your 1m human-AI. The point of digital AI is that it can scale, almost indefinitely.
- _iyig 7y agoOK, then imagine 100 billion people. Scale isn't the point of the experiment - the point is bounding expectations based on probable (maximal?) capabilities. Perhaps a post-Singularity AI will have wild capabilities beyond our comprehension, but that is outside the scope of this experiment.
- jefftk 7y agoYou don't need to recognize every face on every frame. People move slowly compared to 10hz, so tracking "this is a person moving around" is way easier than identifying faces anew every frame.