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Re:Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World ... by braindongle on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @04:44PM (#17024865)
Absolutely correct. And so-called general AI may never happen. Regardless, this is shocking. It immediately needs to be factored into any speculation about what the world will look like in 20 years. Innumerable questions.
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Re:Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World ... by whazor on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @04:47PM (#17024889)
Maybe a general AI is just a very big collection of many smaller abilities.
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Re:Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World ... by killjoywashere on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:02PM (#17025067)
The older I get, the more true I suspect this is.
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Re:Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World ... by akvadrako on Thursday May 10, 2018 @07:13AM (#17037867)
Of course there is more to human intelligence than a list of abilities like "booking a reservation" or "translate French to English".
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