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:muffled sounds of goalposts being shifted in the distance: Just a few years ago we used to clap if an NLP model could handle negation reliably or could genera
by elevatedastalt 3y ago
:muffled sounds of goalposts being shifted in the distance:
Just a few years ago we used to clap if an NLP model could handle negation reliably or could generate even a paragraph of text in English that was natural sounding.
Now we are at a stage where it is basically producing reams of natural sounding text, performing surprisingly well on reasoning problems and translation of languages with barely any data despite being a markov chain on steroids, and what does it hear? "That's an incredibly low bar".
- glenstein 3y agoI'm going to keep beating this dead horse, but if you were a philosophy nerd in the 80s, 90s, 00s etc you may know that debates RAGED over whether computers could ever, even in principle do things that are now being accomplished on a weekly basis. And as you say, the goalposts keep getting moved. It used to be claimed that computers could never play chess at the highest levels because that required "insight". And whatever a computer could do, it could never to that extra special thing, that could only be described in magical undefined terms. I just hope there's a moment of reckoning for decades upon decades of arguments, deemed academically respectable, that insisted that days like these would never come.
- elevatedastalt 3y agoHonestly. I am ok with having greater and greater goals to accomplish but this sort of dismissive attitude really puts me off.
- empath-nirvana 3y agoForget goalpost shifting, people frequently refuse to admit that it can do things that it obviously does, because they've never used it themselves.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoListen, you little ...