A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem
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A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem
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#2It says I need to install the app to read this article. Is there some other way if reading it?
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#3It says I need to install the app to read this article. Is there some other way if reading it?
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#4> After decades of investment, oversight, and standards development, we are not closer to total situational awareness through a computerized brain than we were in the 1970s.
Hard to see how that could be true. In just about any field, computers today provide much better situational awareness than was possible in 1970.
The article makes the usual complaints about self driving cars:
> Despite $16 billion in investment from the heavy hitters of Silicon Valley, we are decades away from self-driving cars.
Yet cars are much more intelligent today than they were in the 1970s. And we are not decades away from self-driving cars - Waymo runs self driving cars today in very specific locations.
Wondering if this article is written by GTP-3.
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#5> After decades of investment, oversight, and standards development, we are not closer to total situational awareness through a computerized brain than we were in the 1970s. Hard to see how that could be true. In just about any field, computers today provide much better situational awareness than was possible in 1970. The article makes the usual complaints about self driving cars: > Despite $16 billion in investment…
> Waymo runs self driving cars today in very specific locations.
Specific locations where the streets are practically tracks.
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#6> After decades of investment, oversight, and standards development, we are not closer to total situational awareness through a computerized brain than we were in the 1970s. Hard to see how that could be true. In just about any field, computers today provide much better situational awareness than was possible in 1970. The article makes the usual complaints about self driving cars: > Despite $16 billion in investment…
Self-driving cars are much much better, but they are not "intelligent" in any sense of that word
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#7Super confusing article.
Title aside (which is silly since AI is a toolset for solving a variety of problems), it is just so poorly written that it's not until more than halfway through it that I think I see it's main points (that present day A.I. systems are too dependenct on 'clean' data, and some nebulous discussion of how AI contributes to decision making in organizations). And the main point wrt data quality is rather silly in itself, because plenty of research is done on learning techniques that take into account adversaries or bad data. And all the discussion wrt how AI should be used to improve decision making is just super vague and makes it seem like the author has little understanding of what AI is and how it is actually used.
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#8> After decades of investment, oversight, and standards development, we are not closer to total situational awareness through a computerized brain than we were in the 1970s. Hard to see how that could be true. In just about any field, computers today provide much better situational awareness than was possible in 1970. The article makes the usual complaints about self driving cars: > Despite $16 billion in investment…
> Waymo runs self driving cars today in very specific locations . Specific locations where the streets are practically tracks.
Phoenix is laid out on a grid, but you can hardly call the streets "tracks".
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#9>People don’t make better decisions when given more data, so why do we assume A.I. will?
Because humans aren't computers. Computers are much better at being able to handle processing large amounts of data than humans can.
>we are decades away from self-driving cars
Self driving cars already exist. In college I had a lab where everyone had to program essentially a miniature car with sensors on it to drive around by itself. Making a car drive by itself is not a hard thing to accomplish.
>the largest social media companies still rely heavily on armies of human beings to scrub the most horrific content off their platforms.
This content is often subjective. It's impossible for a computer to always make the correct subjective choice, no humans will always be necessary
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#10> After decades of investment, oversight, and standards development, we are not closer to total situational awareness through a computerized brain than we were in the 1970s. Hard to see how that could be true. In just about any field, computers today provide much better situational awareness than was possible in 1970. The article makes the usual complaints about self driving cars: > Despite $16 billion in investment…
Let’s say you and I were going to race each other by walking. You start on the east side of Los Angeles and I’m in Santa Monica.
Does your lead mean you’re in a much better position than me? What if the finish line is in Amsterdam?
That’s how I see AI (particularly self driving tech) today. Yes, technically there’s been advancements but we don’t even know whether it’s possible to get to the finish line today.