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Did we read the same comment? What spion describes would be complete science-fiction just a couple of years ago and yet your reaction is "meh".

• Jensson 4y ago
  Everyone things this tech is cool, the main question discussed is how close it is to general intelligence. The poster you respond to argues that it is very far from general intelligence still, there are many who argues that it basically is general intelligence so he isn't arguing against a strawman. If you told me "We have made a natural language parser/processor that is at human level" I'd think that was a huge step forward for computing. Nobody can argue with that.
  • int_19h 4y ago
    The real question in that context is what "general intelligence" even means, for starters. Until we have a clear answer to that, we can't really say anything meaningful about how close and far it is. And it is quite possible that it's a question without any meaningful answer. We basically have a "gut feeling" that it is a qualitative rather than a quantitative difference, but is that really based on hard data, or it's just more comfortable for us to think that way? In the meantime, the practical question is - how useful is it? What can it do?