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I feel like people who play down the significance of AI are lacking a critical piece of understanding about how scalability changes things. Even if it was only
by jongjong 3y ago
I feel like people who play down the significance of AI are lacking a critical piece of understanding about how scalability changes things.
Even if it was only as smart as a dog, if you can duplicate it without limit in silicon, that is a highly transformative tech because electricity is cheaper than food. You can solve more problems per unit of currency. Maybe it would be constrained to certain simple problems but still, the AI would completely dominate that problem space and push humans out of it
- lacrimacida 3y ago>AI would completely dominate that problem space and push humans out of it This type of AI needs to be trained on human data. If humans are pushed out I don’t see it progressing too far
- xyzzy123 3y agoI feel like AlphaGo is a counter-example - it learned by playing against itself. That said, go is an extremely constrained problem space. It's possible that in science, mathematics, games etc that AI could keep advancing without human input or feedback (and not hit a plateau where more human input is needed) because the universe or whatever axioms you choose provide all the necessary structure you need to keep making "progress". But for cultural artefacts - music / art / literature etc perhaps not. At least in the near term while we provide data, power and compute perhaps the most important thing humans do is set goals and rewards.
- pixl97 3y agoEh they are already using LLMs in self training. This and with multimodal AI you're not dependent on human generated language but instead "real world" input.