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Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says

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Re: Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says

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This so much. To say nothing of the fact there is a risk of another AI winter when NN/ML continues to not produce (the promised) results.

I think it’s producing plenty, but it will never live up to the hype of singularity-enabling Asimov-style superior super-intelligences that are being promised regularly to be just around the corner.

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I tried convincing the business developers and marketing for years that what we did was machine learning, applied statistics or gulp “data-driven” functionality - but no, only thing that worked was “ AI Engine”... hurray for throwing my PhD at the wind...

Re: Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says

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Reminds me when X-rays first were discovered, everyone claimed their product contained them, including X-ray headache tablets, golf balls, stove polish, razor blades. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/rg.242035157 for some fun pictures.

I won't be surprised when AI toothbrushes come out.

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"Computers have not become intelligent per se, but they have provided capabilities that augment human intelligence, he writes. Moreover, they have excelled at low-level pattern-recognition capabilities that could be performed in principle by humans but at great cost. "

It's odd how under-appreciated this is. There is no "intelligence" here as we know it, not even a hint. There are algorithms operating on data for very prescribed use cases. When you break it down its pretty primitive stuff really. Clever sure, but don't think we're building a mind here, that language just confuses things. So much of the public conversation around this stuff is polluted with this sort of sci fi nonsense claiming all sorts of properties for AI and implying some sort of singularity is around the corner. Pure fantasy.

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post #14

Reminds me when X-rays first were discovered, everyone claimed their product contained them, including X-ray headache tablets, golf balls, stove polish, razor blades. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/rg.242035157 for some fun pictures. I won't be surprised when AI toothbrushes come out.

:(

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/10/25/20932250/...

Re: Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says

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post #14

Reminds me when X-rays first were discovered, everyone claimed their product contained them, including X-ray headache tablets, golf balls, stove polish, razor blades. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/rg.242035157 for some fun pictures. I won't be surprised when AI toothbrushes come out.

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post #14

Reminds me when X-rays first were discovered, everyone claimed their product contained them, including X-ray headache tablets, golf balls, stove polish, razor blades. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/rg.242035157 for some fun pictures. I won't be surprised when AI toothbrushes come out.

That's happened:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/10/25/20932250/...

Re: Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says

#20
post #3

This so much. To say nothing of the fact there is a risk of another AI winter when NN/ML continues to not produce (the promised) results.

I think it’s producing plenty, but it will never live up to the hype of singularity-enabling Asimov-style superior super-intelligences that are being promised regularly to be just around the corner.

I think there's some "missing link" here, I think we'll have human brains merging with computers to create a symbiotic AI relationship that's less artificial but more "enhanced" for already existing "intelligence", this enhancing is probably the equivalent of the singularity, or pre-cursor to it, as we are able to research faster and faster with our computer-aided brains, we might get to AGI easier/quicker.

We're at least 30 years away from that though, if not 100. Immortality tech, may be easier to accomplish.

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