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>There has been next to ZERO progress towards genuine AGI I mean, really? In the most pessimistic evaluation of ML research, we still know which techniques and
by whymauri 6y ago
>There has been next to ZERO progress towards genuine AGI
I mean, really? In the most pessimistic evaluation of ML research, we still know which techniques and paradigms won't work for AGI. That's not zero progress. Nobody is expecting this to happen overnight.
- mellosouls 6y agoMy comment was in the context of yet another completely unsourced claim of progress. No evidence - as always. No progress. Of course, if you - or anybody else - can show evidence of a genuine advance towards AGI, rather than breathless hype and vague assertions based on the impressive but irrelevant narrow-domain "AI" expertise of Alpha-x and the like, I (and many others) would love to read it. We've been waiting since at least Alan Turing.
- whymauri 6y agoI would say the only tangible evidence of a "genuine advance" towards AGI would be the growing amount of computational power available to us every year.
- mellosouls 6y agoThat presupposes we need that power. Perhaps we do, but if we don't, then the continued lack of progress is in fact evidence of our ineptitude and inefficiency in the face of an embarrassment of riches in terms of tools and power. It's kind of like a having a searchlight that is more and more powerful and still not being able to find the object in the darkness we are looking for because we have given it to a blind man. Plenty of practitioners ready to impress us with buzzwords, empty assurances and paper after paper on the brilliance of obscure statistical formulae and their money pit implementation in server farms. But all this power and cliquey self congratulation is just noise drowning out a very embarrassing truth: We don't have any new ideas.