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Love me some good old whataboutism (sure, LLMs are now super-intelligent at writing software, but can they clean my kitchen? No? Ha!)
by tsunego 2y ago
Love me some good old whataboutism (sure, LLMs are now super-intelligent at writing software, but can they clean my kitchen? No? Ha!)
- jvanderbot 2y agoThe computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing. - Emo Phillips Tale as old as time. We can make nice software systems but general purpose AI / Agents isn't here yet.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoWorse than that: it seems that it's much easier to make computer achieve superhuman feats in cognitive work, than it is to make it do even most basic physical interactions with the real world. In short: the natural order of things is that computers are better at thinking, and people are better at manual labor. Which is the opposite of what we wanted.
- jvanderbot 2y agoAI is just hydraulics for the mind. Or should be. I choose a direction and apply force.
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