Using Siri, not itself the outmost edge, but an estimate of the state of the art... If you have an iPhone, take it out and ask Siri how much memory is left on your phone. If she doesn't know how (she doesn't) explain it to her (she can't learn). This is not a philosophical question, it's not a question that requires opinion forming, or fuzzy guesses, it's not a question that requires establishing ad hoc priors that update in real time, it doesn't need to parse an idiom, or draw connections, or to disambiguate complex meanings. It's a simple request, and a simple task. To anyone overly paranoid about the AI issue, this might actually help attenuate those fears when someone starts going on about the singularity being upon us... you just need to take out your phone and ask Siri how much free memory you have left; if she tells you... panic.
Re:DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial int...
by subroutine on Thursday March 14, 2019 @03:54PM
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Except - We're nowhere near it.
Re:DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial int...
by beefcafe on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:08PM
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An iOS dev is going to read this and build that feature into Siri just to mess with you.
Re:DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial int...
by subroutine on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:38PM
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I hope so hah. It would be nice if Apple made it so, instead of Siri saying "sorry i cant help you with that" she said "i dont know how to do that, can you teach me". And even if it were not really AI but macro-based, it would be better than nothing.
What you're describing as hype/greed around badly understood algorithms could easily manifest as 'cult-like oracle religions'.
Combine that sort of thing with the superstitious, wealthy people playing power games, and what you're describing is essentially the exact same thing as the "bad science fiction" described above, just from an arguably more grounded angle.