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"Ever" is not a useful word here. It's like saying "Will four year olds ever be grown in pods?" A better headline might be "Can AI learn as flexibly as a four year old with today's known techniques?", to which the answer is of course "No".
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But there are still many things a 4 year old can do that no AI can do.
Sometimes I feel like our AI research is leading us to consider ourselves increasingly unintelligent rather than our computers more intelligent. It's leading us to question what we really mean by the word "intelligence". Is it being good at certain skills? Is it being able to acquire arbitrary skills? Does it matter how much guidance we or the AI needs in order to learn?
"Ever" is not a useful word here. It's like saying "Will four year olds ever be grown in pods?" A better headline might be "Can AI learn as flexibly as a four year old with today's known techniques?", to which the answer is of course "No".
Brains just process information. Computers process information and we continue to make them better at it. Eventually, computers will process information at least as well as brains do for various definitions of "well".
https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_can_we_build_ai_without...
"Ever" is not a useful word here. It's like saying "Will four year olds ever be grown in pods?" A better headline might be "Can AI learn as flexibly as a four year old with today's known techniques?", to which the answer is of course "No".
Those sound like different questions. The original is asking if it is theoretically plausible. I don’t think that’s out of line.
While I do see - and to an extent agree with - their point, I there is a lot more wrong with that heading than just the lack of a contextual end date.
Depends on what you consider "smarter" of course. At the moment, the best AI is much smarter at chess than any 4 year old. AI is also better at translating text to different languages. It's better at driving cars. But there are still many things a 4 year old can do that no AI can do. Sometimes I feel like our AI research is leading us to consider ourselves increasingly unintelligent rather than our computers more int…
You could maybe say a machine translator can poorly translate a greater set of strings, including highly-technical strings. But a 4-year-old easily can translate a greater proportion of strings correctly or at least intelligibly.
Depends on what you consider "smarter" of course. At the moment, the best AI is much smarter at chess than any 4 year old. AI is also better at translating text to different languages. It's better at driving cars. But there are still many things a 4 year old can do that no AI can do. Sometimes I feel like our AI research is leading us to consider ourselves increasingly unintelligent rather than our computers more int…