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Isn't this just the AI effect? Whenever there is a breakthrough in AI research, it's no longer considered AI. This happened with search algorithms, game playing
by fasterik 4y ago
Isn't this just the AI effect? Whenever there is a breakthrough in AI research, it's no longer considered AI. This happened with search algorithms, game playing, speech recognition, computer vision, etc. etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Maybe as "tech people" we should give the public a realistic picture of what AI research is. It's solving problems using a diverse set of techniques that include search, optimization, planning, learning, and knowledge representation. Saying that the current developments aren't AI is simply wrong.
- Jensson 4y agoThe AI effect is actually: Whenever there is a breakthrough in AI research, the AI researchers will consider it AI and lament that others don't agree. That wikipedia article is just from the AI researchers point of view, it isn't what actually happens.
- versteegen 4y agoI never heard that one. It's pretty much true. Is it interesting though? But it's totally compatible with the other "AI effect", which also seems pretty much true in my observation.
- frrae 4y ago> Saying that the current developments aren't AI is simply wrong. Thank you for illustrating my point so well. What you are expressing is exactly what I'm talking about: The redefinition of what the I in AI stands for. Inferring some text is not intelligence. Ergo it's not AI what GPT is doing. The industry has redefined the terms and that's for good reason, to get the public hyped up and thereby open the money gates. But that's for the business people. Assuming that "we" in this audience are the tech people, we should push back against this and stop calling things something they are not.