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This reminds me of Asimov's Jokester story where the same themes are explored - there is an all-knowing computer but someone needs to ask the correct questions.
by overfl0w 1y ago
This reminds me of Asimov's Jokester story where the same themes are explored - there is an all-knowing computer but someone needs to ask the correct questions.
"Early in the history of Multivac, it had become apparent
that the bottleneck was the questioning procedure. Multivac
could answer the problem of humanity, all the problems, if it
were asked meaningful questions. But as knowledge accumulated
at an ever-faster rate, it became ever more difficult
to locate those meaningful questions.
Reason alone wouldn't do. What was needed was a rare
type of intuition; the same faculty of mind (only much more
intensified) that made a grand master at chess. A mind was
needed of the sort that could see through the quadrillions of
chess patterns to find the one best move, and do it in a matter
of minutes."
- stopthe 1y agoThat chess metaphor didn't age well
- Jensson 1y agoThat is the goal post moving, its done by AI optimists that thinks "we just need something that can solve X and it will be as smart as a human expert". Wasn't true for chess, wasn't true for Go, we will see when its true, but they are constantly moving the goalposts and then arguing its others who are moving it.