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> I perceive a moving of the goalposts as machine intelligence improves. Goal posts only exist in games. These systems are engineering products to be leverage
by swatcoder 3y ago
> I perceive a moving of the goalposts as machine intelligence improves.
Goal posts only exist in games.
These systems are engineering products to be leveraged in enginenering processes. We want to understand what they're good at and what they're bad at, and what potential they show for further refinement. There are no goal posts or "happy with" criteria in that context, and when we find ourselves adjusting the language we use to describe them because of how we see them work, we're trying to refine our ability to express their capabilities and suitabilities.
Intelligence, in particular, is a very poor and ambiguous word to be stuck using in technical contexts and so we're likely to just gradually shed it over time to reduce confusion as we hone in on better ways to talk about these systems. We've repeatedly done the same for earlier advances in the field, and for the same reason.