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Sure, and 20 years ago nobody thought language would be a solved problem and we now have AIs pumping out coherent essays and academic papers from one sentence p
by naasking 4y ago
Sure, and 20 years ago nobody thought language would be a solved problem and we now have AIs pumping out coherent essays and academic papers from one sentence prompts. Even 10 years ago nobody thought AI photorealistic art would be possible, but here we are.
People are too quick to forget how many "unassailable" towers have already been toppled. They see how kind of obvious each problem looks in hindsight, "oh it was just this one trick", not realizing the irony that yes, one or two tricks, and we may be only one more trick from being in serious trouble.
- poulpy123 4y ago> coherent essays and academic papers from one sentence prompts. No they don't. They managed to get impressive results, but it's still far from coherent because the algorithms still lack the ability to think
- naasking 4y ago> No they don't. They managed to get impressive results Given that these papers have actually been published, the papers they produce are at least as coherent as the state of the art in the field. > but it's still far from coherent because the algorithms still lack the ability to think Nobody knows what "thinking" is, as a functional process. For all you know, human thinking may itself just be the same sort of pattern matching as used in machine learning, just with a few more parameters. In which case these algorithms actually are thinking, just with more limited intelligence than us.