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My point is that there IS no serious "pure" AI research these days. Your image of lots of pure AI researchers wasting their time is a fantasy-- those people do
by lliiffee 17y ago
My point is that there IS no serious "pure" AI research these days. Your image of lots of pure AI researchers wasting their time is a fantasy-- those people don't exist. People work on applications.
- chime 17y agoAnd yet there are numerous people who work on pure math and theoretical physics.
- yummyfajitas 17y ago"Those people don't exist" is a bit of an exaggeration. Eliezer Yudkowsky exists, for example. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eyudkowsky http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eyudkowsky His research is in making AGI (artificial general intelligence) not go skynet by building in morals. That seems fairly pure to me.
- endtime 17y agoYes, "Those people don't exist" isn't technically correct; perhaps it should have been "Those people don't exist in significant numbers." The point is that people who call themselves AI researches, the vast majority of the time are not working on AGI but on weak AI.