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Leading to AGI? I have been using deep learning professionally for about seven years (and neural networks since the 1980s with a commercial product and I wrote
by mark_l_watson 4y ago
Leading to AGI? I have been using deep learning professionally for about seven years (and neural networks since the 1980s with a commercial product and I wrote the model for SAIC’s bomb detector they did for the FAA).
Personally, as awesomely useful as deep learning is, I don’t see the path to AGI. I think AGI will be a hybrid of DL, GOFAI, and things not yet invented.
- ShamelessC 4y agoSure but the comment is still an appealing pitch to investors, and probably can be read broadly to include "things not yet invented". Out of curiosity - what is GOFAI?
- napier 4y agoGood Old Fashioned (symbolic) Artificial Intelligence. And thanks, absolutely my clumsily worded investor pitch intent was to cover techniques not yet invented, thanks for picking up on that.
- napier 4y agoCouldn't agree more - generalised task capable systems will likely be composable architectures that draw upon a grounding in variety of methods, not just DL by any means. Synthetic sensoria capable of integrating, interpreting and generating general task capabilities are likely to lead us somewhere interesting. DL / LLMs are akin to Wintermutes before waking; with whatever passes for consciousness instantiating and evaporating with each prompt input (which some might argue is a good thing for foom-resistant biospheres) and no continuum vector state pseudoawareness. However, strongly feel we'll have instruct-GPT models on the edge as an interface modality, but they're not the holy grail or be all end all.