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It certainly feels like researchers and developers are on to some path towards a general artificial intelligence with the advances in machine learning. Just a f
by cloudking 5y ago
It certainly feels like researchers and developers are on to some path towards a general artificial intelligence with the advances in machine learning. Just a few decades ago we had terrible speech recognition software, now the speech recognition on mobile devices is nearly perfect.
Teaching computers how to sense the world like a human seems like progression towards the idea of AGI. However, these sensory recognition systems (e.g sight, hearing) on a high level simply take input and label it correctly. The missing ingredients that humans have seem to be understanding, reasoning and feeling. There was a good episode of Star Trek TNG where Data explored this...
- ausbah 5y agodeep learning is mostly a dead end rn for any sort of "general reasoning", like great image labeling is much better but beyond that who knows
- tsimionescu 5y agoI very much doubt this is a path to AGI per se, it's almost certainly more like Leonardo da Vinci's discoveries in human flight rather than the Wright brothers'. It's not nothing, but there is no clear path from where we are to AGI through iterative improvements. We are still missing some major pieces of the puzzle. Our models learn far too slowly, they are failing at learning logic or mathematics, there is no clear path to codifying an understanding of the world into them, and there are no successful attempts at merging various trained models with classical AI. It may well be that current approaches will be a useful component of an AGI, but I doubt it will be built anything like we build models today.