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I think it definitely does. Is this AGI, or even close to it? No. But is it in the direction of AGI, or otherwise some small building block of it, that when wor

by ve55 6y ago

I think it definitely does. Is this AGI, or even close to it? No. But is it in the direction of AGI, or otherwise some small building block of it, that when worked on for decades, may contribute? Definitely

ska 6y ago
It's still not that obvious. There has been a lot of interesting stuff in this current iteration of "AI", but the overall approach could still end up being a dead end with respect to AGI itself. It's an old discussion, and while a few of the deep learning results are really impressive I don't think any of them have fundamentally changed that discussion, yet.
- dwaltrip 6y ago
  Even if it is a dead end, that is still valuable knowledge.
  - ska 6y ago
    Of course, but the claim wasn't that it had no value. You can easily handwave that all generated knowledge might be indirectly useful; i think that's fair but also different than the distinction I drew.