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To be fair a toddler's brain isn't "offline" while it's musculature develops, they kick and move their limbs constantly, and then later crawl and and even stand
by Drakim 3y ago
To be fair a toddler's brain isn't "offline" while it's musculature develops, they kick and move their limbs constantly, and then later crawl and and even stand, before they finally take the first walking steps. It's just objectively wrong to say a toddler goes from zero to walking in "several tries".
- pdimitar 3y agoSure, not several. Not several trillions either though. As mentioned in a sibling comment, HN anthropomorphizes AI too much. And is too optimistic about it. I just don't see the results and the value, people trip up all over themselves to congratulate themselves and the researches, yet 99.99% of the problems in the world persist. I am one of these a-holes that wants to see results when money are invested. It still comes as a shock to some apparently.
- flangola7 3y agoBlank checks are flying like it is the dot com era again. Money is most definitely being invested in it.
- pixl97 3y agoI mean, if we're taking the random walk that nature took to get human level intelligence from the first multicellular organisms you'll have to wait 600 million years or so. AI takes a shortcut around having a timeline of a trillion different versions history optimizing the learning algorithm and putting the successful ones in a timeline, but at a cost of trillions of operations to teach it. TL;DR, the problem space is huge and evidently must be iterated.
- pdimitar 3y agoYou are extremely generously assuming that AI evolution has a direction and a purpose/goal like the organic one has. It doesn't. We are steering it. And I doubt that we know better than the natural evolution.