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you know, the funny thing is people in these AI threads keep saying "it's a philosophical/political problem for the future where it matters", punting the questi
by LesZedCB 4y ago
you know, the funny thing is people in these AI threads keep saying "it's a philosophical/political problem for the future where it matters", punting the question so they don't have to think about it.
except, i don't know if they noticed, but we _keep asking these questions_ daily. the time isn't in the far future and people seriously need to start thinking about this. humans are so stuck in their linear perception of time, we forget that the AI we take for granted now are only months old, and two years ago their abilities were unheard of.
- tsimionescu 4y agoAnd people have been claiming this is a near future problem to think seriously about since the days CLIPS was state-of-the-art AI that would soon make doctors obsolete. When we'll have anything resembling an AI that actually wants things, it will make sense to discuss about its rights. The current state of the art in AI is that we can generate sentences that match a given context. There are a few billion steps left from here to there.
- LesZedCB 4y agoso linear
- tsimionescu 4y agoHonestly, I would argue that progress in AGI is actually sublinear. We are not significantly closer to AGI today than we were in the 1950s, as far as I can tell. The fact that LMs can seem like they generate meaningful sentences is nothing more than a nice trick. My bet is that they will turn out to be a dead-end on the path to actual language processing (that is, the ability to read a book and use the information therein to achieve a goal).