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This is why I laugh anytime someone asks me if I am worried about AI taking over all the jobs. Lots of hype, but in reality we are about as far from general AI

• visarga 6y ago
  Not much changed, AI is based on rocks even now, complicated silicon rocks. /s Joke aside, humans make mistakes too, just different kinds of mistakes. Humans get tired, bored and when we die, experience dies with us as well. AI worth is based on application, for example I would train it with fruit images if it were a fruit picking robot and it would be useful, even if it can't recognise upside down cars. Like any tool you got to know how to wield it. Humans are expert only in the general things about life and maybe a specialised field. Most humans are bad at most tasks. Try to get a quadratic equation solved by random people on the street, like x^2 - 5x + 4 = 0, without paper and pen. It's a matter of being "in distribution" for us too. Nobody's perfect at everything (no free lunch). What's missing for our AI to be truly great is the part about evolution. AI's need bodies, environments and an evolutionary program. Supervised models can't experiment new things except for their training data, they can't modify their environment in any way, can't formulate and test hypothesis. When they will be in the world like us, they will be much better. They will be the proverbial scientist Mary of the "knowledge argument" that sees colour red for the first time, after having studied everything about it in theory.