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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by pron on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:11PM (#20500067)
The kind of language used in this release has actually hurt AI considerably before, so by pointing out that it's delusional I am not giving up and helping save AI from the research winter that OpenAI seems to be working on. You're welcome, AI!
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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by breck on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:20PM (#20500159)
okay I'll concede your point that perhaps being bold could be bad publicity for the field. I think that's a reasonable position to take. I don't think it is correct, but I think it's reasonable. Even if it were the precursor to a drop in funding, I don't think the previous "AI Winter" was so long, in comparison to the century-long gaps in the advance of other technologies in history, (binary was invented hundreds of years before the computer).

I would definitely not call OpenAI delusional. I would say all OpenAI is being here is "honest".

They are simply stating what the math tells them.

"E pur si muove"

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Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI by AlexCoventry on Monday July 22, 2019 @03:49PM (#20501637)
> They are simply stating what the math tells them.

Which math?

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