Re:Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out
by dragonwriter on Thursday August 15, 2019 @06:01PM
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> We haven’t gotten anywhere in terms of _understanding_ what’s in that speech that just got turned into text, for example
What test is there to quantify understanding that has been used to determine that it hasn't gotten better?
It seems to me that a lot of the things that are posed as hard things for AI to do are poorly defined phenomenon which we have no empirical test for that we simply infer to be explanations for observed behavior of humans that critics assert that AI can't do without evidence or even a definition upon which a search for evidence could be based.
What test is there to quantify understanding that has been used to determine that it hasn't gotten better?
It seems to me that a lot of the things that are posed as hard things for AI to do are poorly defined phenomenon which we have no empirical test for that we simply infer to be explanations for observed behavior of humans that critics assert that AI can't do without evidence or even a definition upon which a search for evidence could be based.