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It is also fun to imagine fairies exist. More seriously, Kurzweil snake-oil selling is just distracting us from serious research in AI. That is the problem. Be
by cscurmudgeon 13y ago
It is also fun to imagine fairies exist.
More seriously, Kurzweil snake-oil selling is just distracting us from serious research in AI. That is the problem. Belief in this woo woo might actually stop us from getting real AI.
- panacea 13y agoDude peddles exponential snake-oil curves while we deal with sine++ waves.
- CmonDev 13y ago"distracting us from serious research in AI" - like how? By hiring DeepMind to work on pattern recognition?
- cscurmudgeon 13y agoTell me again how DeepMind bested humans in Jeopardy! or had success on hard publicly scrutinizable objective AI problems. My point is that all these "deep" X folks shy away from really hard AI problems which other paradigms are solving more easily.
- CmonDev 13y agoNo, they are taking cutting-edge findings in neuroscience (which studies an actual intelligence that is actually already "implemented") and applying them to computer science. At least this "shying away" will not unleash the 'AI winter' that "hard AI problem" "solvers" have caused.
- cscurmudgeon 13y agoAh. Then we need not worry about the singularity coming from Google. (Call me when Google measures up to IBM's Watson.) At least this "shying away" will not unleash the 'AI winter' that "hard AI problem" "solvers" have caused. Umm. Yeah...
- Houshalter 13y agoHow is Kurzweil distracting from serious AI research?