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An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

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Re: An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

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Nlp is getting better at a rapid rate. Articles like this are worthless click bait. No one knows what ml will look like in ten years. And for the record, ten years is a short period of time for a technology that could have such a massive impact.

Re: An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

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Nlp is getting better at a rapid rate. Articles like this are worthless click bait. No one knows what ml will look like in ten years. And for the record, ten years is a short period of time for a technology that could have such a massive impact.

People don't understand what exponential improvement means. GPT-3 is a 175B with B parameter model. Another few rounds of doubling and we could be seeing models spit out short stories and novellas.

Re: An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

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"The result is an artificial idiot savant that can excel at well-bounded tasks, but can get things very wrong if faced with unexpected input."

I think this gets to the core of what is still a limitation of current technologies. Venturing into the unknown is still a deeply relevant task that seems unlikely to be replaced by computers anytime soon.

Re: An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

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Nlp is getting better at a rapid rate. Articles like this are worthless click bait. No one knows what ml will look like in ten years. And for the record, ten years is a short period of time for a technology that could have such a massive impact.

People don't understand what exponential improvement means. GPT-3 is a 175B with B parameter model. Another few rounds of doubling and we could be seeing models spit out short stories and novellas.

Yet, the darn thing still can't reason.

Re: An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

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I’m a longtime AI skeptic who has been arguing passionately against the doom-sayers, many in my own family and in casual conversations with laymen, for several years. I stand by this article I wrote which summarizes my views https://medium.com/@seibelj/the-artificial-intelligence-scam...

The hype on AI was absolutely astonishing. I’m glad it’s finally coming back to reality.

Re: An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

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Nlp is getting better at a rapid rate. Articles like this are worthless click bait. No one knows what ml will look like in ten years. And for the record, ten years is a short period of time for a technology that could have such a massive impact.

People don't understand what exponential improvement means. GPT-3 is a 175B with B parameter model. Another few rounds of doubling and we could be seeing models spit out short stories and novellas.

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Re: An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People don't understand what exponential improvement means. GPT-3 is a 175B with B parameter model. Another few rounds of doubling and we could be seeing models spit out short stories and novellas.

Yet, the darn thing still can't reason.

To be fair, it wasn't trained to.

To be really fair, I think you need to more precisely define what you mean by "reason". It absolutely CAN reason by some measures.

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