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Could not agree more. We keep moving the goalposts for what constitutes intelligence, perhaps that is a net good, but I can't help feeling that we are taking in
by axg11 5y ago
Could not agree more. We keep moving the goalposts for what constitutes intelligence, perhaps that is a net good, but I can't help feeling that we are taking incredible progress for granted. Both DALL-E and large language models (GPT-3, PaLM) demonstrate abilities that the majority of people doubted would ever be possible by a computer 20 years ago.
Imagine telling someone in 2002 that they can write a description of a dog on their computer, send it over the internet and a server on the other side will return a novel, generated, near-perfect picture of that dog! Oh - sorry, one caveat, the legs might be a little long!
- leobg 5y agoTrue if you would have asked a nerd. If you had asked a person on the street, they would have answered, “Why, of course. Can’t computers do more complicated stuff already today?”