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Re:Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine... by bsenftner on Thursday May 10, 2018 @09:47AM (#17038786)
It is a cute statistical trick. It has zero insight. Current AI is a very sophisticated manipulation of past event resolution, seeking to fit a current event into past resolutions. The term "idiot savant" is closer than "artificial intelligence" - because the algorithm knows not what it is doing, why it is doing, or how it is doing. It's an idiot.
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Re:Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine... by whataretensors on Thursday May 10, 2018 @10:15AM (#17038997)
I'm more hopeful that narrow ai can be the same thing as strong ai with a few theory breakthroughs, increases in model capacity and metacognition.
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Re:Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine... by bsenftner on Thursday May 10, 2018 @10:31AM (#17039135)
Narrow AI is like a single celled animal, while strong AI is like a complete human in comparison. The complexity difference is more than an order of magnitude, it's an entire evolutionary era.
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Re:Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine... by whataretensors on Thursday May 10, 2018 @10:48AM (#17039299)
I don't disagree with a gap that needs to be overcome. I just think that the exponential nature of technology will cross it quickly.

Evolution is amazing but it doesn't optimize directly for intelligence.

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