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That’s what Wall street said about expert traders. And then replaced them all with bots and gave the capital to the bots to be traded. I remember when Garry Ka
by EGreg 4y ago
That’s what Wall street said about expert traders. And then replaced them all with bots and gave the capital to the bots to be traded.
I remember when Garry Kasparov insisted that centaurs -- computer+human — do better than just a computer or just a human. He held out longer than most in this belief. But seriously… can you name a field where computers and bots can NEVER beat humans?
- sublinear 4y agoAny topic where being an expert is not mere memorization or imitation without comprehension, and discovering new facts is not just relentlessly churning through a rule set and producing what was already self-evident. I don't disagree whether computers are good at computation. That's what they're for. I disagree that AI can replace experts because expertise is a moving target. Where AI approximates a response given at some point in time or within a range of time written by a crowd of people who are not necessarily experts, experts must inevitably contradict themselves on something and update their theories. AI as currently implemented will always lag behind human experts. In other words, do you seriously believe that an AI trained on scientific publications from the middle ages would eventually rediscover what we know now and beyond? I think it would be stuck forever hallucinating recipes to turn lead into gold.