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> I don't think any serious AI researcher would claim that their creations are close to actually thinking. I don't think anybody seriously believes that -- but
by qsort 4y ago
> I don't think any serious AI researcher would claim that their creations are close to actually thinking.
I don't think anybody seriously believes that -- but setting reasonable public expectations from emerging technologies is at least in part the responsibility of the "technically literate class" broadly defined, research scientists, practitioners, even developers in ML/AI-adjacent fields such as myself.
Stuff like "GPT3 is coming for your job" is already out to the press. Nobody thinks that, nobody has even said that, but nobody has done anything to set expectations straight either.
We ought to be more responsible in this respect.
- CamperBob2 4y agoEh, they're not wrong. Given another 20-30 years of progress at this rate, it's coming for almost every knowledge worker's job. Which is pretty freaking cool.
- qsort 4y agoIt's been 20-30 years in the future for several decades now.
- CamperBob2 4y agoYes, and something finally happened. A hell of a lot happened, actually, starting with AlphaGo and progressing to a credible Turing-test contestant only a couple of years later. But yes, your deeper point is hard to dispute; this business has always run on punctuated equilibrium. We may be in for another 50+ years of "AI winter." I doubt it, though. It feels different this time.
- ryloric 4y ago> Nobody thinks that, nobody has even said that Some said it though, I remember a prominent AI professor talking about radiologists losing their jobs on twitter and the ensuing mess surrounding it. Except that, I agree strongly with everything else you pointed out.