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>The reason AI is not a normal technology is because it is fully general. It is fully "general", because its training data encompass all human knowledge. It is
by lolakutty 1mo ago
>The reason AI is not a normal technology is because it is fully general.
It is fully "general", because its training data encompass all human knowledge.
It is a matter of scaling, rather than a matter of method. And so it is only as general as the underlying human knowledge.
Not-one-bit-more.
- theahura 1mo agoit is obviously able to make advancements outside of human knowledge, like navier stokes
- lolakutty 1mo agoIf A -> B and B -> C are within human knowledge, then I don't really consider that A -> C to be outside of human knowledge. Sure, LLMs are very good at discovering hidden links. But that is about it. And don't get me wrong, it is a very powerful thing. But it is not god reveling the secrets of the universe...
- munksbeer 1mo agoIt isn't obvious which technology you mean by this. I'm assuming you mean LLMs. Even then, you're almost certainly incorrect. The goalposts get moved constantly, this is just the latest. Within a few years this isn't going to be an argument.
- lolakutty 1mo agoThe goalposts didn't move, they just got refined and more specified..