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AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

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Re: AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

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It's inference. It's really good at generating stuff when the example base is extensive. Like for non-esoteric coding.

Is a brain also inference? I know that an LLM works very different from the brain, but I wonder what makes a brain more capable of thinking. Is it the long term context? Is it a different type of neuron activation?

Re: AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

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Ha before reading the article I thought "this must be an interview of Lecun". A bitter scientist that hates he was left behind the revolution.

In what way was he left behind? If he wanted to actually work on LLMs all the AI labs would fight to get him

Re: AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

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AI winter.

Not likely. Take with whatever grain of salt you'd like, but that was largely a property of development being academicized and subject to things like grant cycles, research topic fashionability trends, and institutional structure. It would be wrong to assume it's some baked in thing that's guaranteed to happen independent of how development looks.

Re: AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

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Ha before reading the article I thought "this must be an interview of Lecun". A bitter scientist that hates he was left behind the revolution.

Left behind how? It's been transformers since 2016 and not much actual progress in basic architectures has happened 10 years later. I'm honestly struggling to see how you can be left behind in this field.

Re: AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

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The article seems to define "smart" as being good at spatial awareness and navigating a body through 3D space and such. Thus, a mice is smarter than an LLM.

That's the first time in my life I hear this definition. Until now, the word "smart" has meant doing exactly the things LLMs do, and mice don't.

I guess it is a sign we are re-evaluating what makes humans special.

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