Re:Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities? (2018)
by luckylion on Monday June 08, 2020 @03:41PM
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> There are 0 examples of a man made construct reaching "general" intelligence (whatever fuzzy meaning you may attach to it); there is no reason to believe that because we can reach some arbitrary human milestone today ("be a world class Go player"), any other human milestone ("start and run a company, and be a mentor and inspiration to others") is plausible.
No reason? If you were an outside observer looking at the very first individuals of what you decided to call human, maybe. But after so many steps were made? You can argue that, before there was a plane, there was zero reason to thing that humans can ever create one. And you could've claimed that for pretty much anything else. And you'd generally see that they did get created. Why would artificial intelligence be fundamentally different? I'm not saying "we can do it in the next five years", but to say that there's no reason to believe that it will ever happen?
> We do not have such an understanding backing current ML work.
And we did not have the knowledge of aerodynamics before we started looking into throwing things, then keeping things in the air for longer than they would if they were thrown, and eventually flying them (yes, a bit simplified).
No reason? If you were an outside observer looking at the very first individuals of what you decided to call human, maybe. But after so many steps were made? You can argue that, before there was a plane, there was zero reason to thing that humans can ever create one. And you could've claimed that for pretty much anything else. And you'd generally see that they did get created. Why would artificial intelligence be fundamentally different? I'm not saying "we can do it in the next five years", but to say that there's no reason to believe that it will ever happen?
> We do not have such an understanding backing current ML work.
And we did not have the knowledge of aerodynamics before we started looking into throwing things, then keeping things in the air for longer than they would if they were thrown, and eventually flying them (yes, a bit simplified).