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> Forget X, the real challenge for AI is Y. As soon as Ys become Xs over time, and we come up with new Ys: we’re making progress.
by b3kart 7y ago
> Forget X, the real challenge for AI is Y.
As soon as Ys become Xs over time, and we come up with new Ys: we’re making progress.
- monadic2 7y agoDeep Blue was 24 years ago.
- b3kart 7y agoYour point? If you're saying we haven't made progress since: I beg to differ.
- ska 7y agoYou forget the step where when we get comfortable enough with something we stop calling X AI at all because obviously it' just Z. NB: I'm not convinced this is the wrong thing to do, many of the things we've historically labeled "AI" are very obviously not, at least in retrospect. Perhaps the cycle ends only when an AI can explain to us how we are getting it wrong.
- b3kart 7y agoWe just don't have a very good definition of what "intelligence" actually is. Hence we're trying to set the bar somewhere. "Surely a machine that can play chess is intelligent". Nope, that's not it. "But surely a machine that recognizes objects in images is intelligent". Nah, it's just good at recognizing patterns of pixels. And so on and so forth. It's a noisy process, but we're slowly moving in the right direction.
- ska 7y agoRight, we've been doing this for coming on 60 years now, and we have a much better idea of what isn't intelligence than what is. But that's still useful.