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He believes that AGI is an engineering problem because of the vast compute resource required for it. Being an engineering problem he believes he can make an imp
by ww520 4y ago
He believes that AGI is an engineering problem because of the vast compute resource required for it. Being an engineering problem he believes he can make an impact.
- tgv 4y agoThat would be utterly wrong.
- Kuinox 4y agoGPT-3 happened and showed that by throwing more computation at the problem you have better results.
- tgv 4y agoAs one of my AI profs said: it's like trying to teach pigs to fly, and say you're progressing because you're building higher towers.
- musha68k 4y agoChomsky and Gary Marcus predict that the current approach will not be sufficient; is and will increasingly be detrimental to society because of that “almost right at best” reason. Chomsky only has hopes in a combined approach that integrates “old AI” with the engineering / data / GPU driven one. See also discussion here for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33857543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33857543