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> but unless someone--a human--can verify and understand it Why though a human? Mathematical proofs are very ivory-towery, but if OpenAI would solve a subkind
by ralfd 11d ago
> but unless someone--a human--can verify and understand it
Why though a human? Mathematical proofs are very ivory-towery, but if OpenAI would solve a subkind of Cancer, without mortal humans understanding, cancer is still be healed.
- sfn42 11d agoNot unless humans were able to produce the medicine or perform the surgery or whatever is necessary to actually heal someone. In order for that to happen it has to be verified and understood by humans, like the other commenter said.
- gattr 11d agoDoes it, though? What if future AI can do everything from designing the cure to building a self-contained universal surgical medcapsule? "Just lay down and I'll fix your cancer real good, trust me, bruh." If it was shown to work, would you use it?
- sfn42 11d agoWell sure, if it's already proven why wouldn't I use it? The AI we currently have can't do that though. The AI we currently have is a glorified chatbot. It can't fabricate anything and I doubt it could even reliably design simple real world devices. It's a really cool and useful technology, and maybe one day it will be as good as you describe, but right now it just isn't and there's no guarantee it ever will be.