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We already have working AI, not prototypes. Look at big corporations for example.

• ben_w 6y ago
  @dogma1138 said general AI, what we have in big corporations is specialist AI. A general AI must, by definition and at minimum, be capable of doing any intellectual task currently done by humans; right now, they’re good at what they do, but are very limited in what they do, and slow to learn. For example, self driving cars can still only do limited environments and conditions, despite Tesla having over 18,000 human-professional-equivalent years of driving experience as of April last year, which they achieved shortly after they added “Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control” to their feature list — and that item is still listed as “(Beta)”. It’s the same everywhere: GPT-3 is fantastic… but despite having “read” more than any human could in a lifetime, it still struggles with moderate arithmetic; Voice assistants do amazing things… but I’ve literally had easier times attempting to converse with pet dogs; Google Translate has made moving and travelling abroad much less stressful, and it knows more languages than I can name to a higher standard than I know a second language… but I’ve seen it hallucinate words in lawns, and it does make translation mistakes that even I can spot. And even if they were perfected within their domains, none of these are generalists for all domains.