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2 800 lbs. gorilla truths: 0. AGI is a remote, distant possibility borne of science fiction, more remote than commercial fusion power or ubiquitous flying cars
by 1letterunixname 3y ago
2 800 lbs. gorilla truths:
0. AGI is a remote, distant possibility borne of science fiction, more remote than commercial fusion power or ubiquitous flying cars.
1. Narrow AI (software) will eat all areas that are reducible, but it cannot completely replace the interactive reasoning of a subject matter expert. That's why there will never be AI lawyers, mechanical engineers, or civil engineers delivering statute or code interpretation reports.
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IIRC (or someone was pulling my leg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), BMIR at Stanford was doing NLP ML of medical &| biomedical informatics papers and trying to draw new conclusions from automated meta-analyses of existing papers.
- nerdponx 3y ago> IIRC (or someone was pulling my leg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), BMIR at Stanford was doing NLP ML of medical &| biomedical informatics papers and trying to draw new conclusions from automated meta-analyses of existing papers. Seems like a silly idea, but it's hard to know if it's really a bad idea until you try it. ML algorithms are specifically good at finding complicated high-order interactions that might not be obvious to a human, and we're still not very good at knowing when there will or won't be something interesting in a new dataset. It's not unreasonable to want to just try everything.