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Oh man this really hits home as someone who did a lot of this searching for a "perfect" system. At some point it really hit me, I think a lot of people are sub
by jrm4 5y ago
Oh man this really hits home as someone who did a lot of this searching for a "perfect" system. At some point it really hit me, I think a lot of people are subconsciously believing that the note system will do the thinking for you, and it's really very bad at that. The good news is, that's what you -- the human -- are for.
Literally all the computer can do is periodically remind you of something, and all you can do is try to pick how/when it can re-tell you things you already know. Anything after that is you using your human brain to make the real connections.
(Yes, discovering this has made me wildly skeptical of AI to the point that I generally don't believe in it anymore, i.e. I'm 99.999% certain we will never see anything remotely close to a "singularity.")
- joebob42 5y agoI guess if you thought that all a computer could do was remind people of facts then it would make sense to be skeptical, but I'm not sure how you've concluded that. At a minimum, a computer can play many games better than a human, automatically sort vast troves of information and serve results from queries, kind-of-drive a car, detect images which contain cancer, etc.
- jrm4 5y agoI guess you could (or I could) divide A.I. into roughly two categories, "cool thing that uses things like Machine Learning" and then "appears to be sentient/likely to be more intelligent than humans" etc. I'm old enough to have seen the goalposts on the first one move all the time, and that's not what I'm referring to, I'm more referring to the latter.