Re:Have we screwed up artificial intelligence?
by manikberry on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @01:27AM
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Of course we're decades away from the refinement we're looking for, or advertising for that matter. But mainstream AI like Alexa and Google Assistant are selling like hot cakes for the 'human touch.'
Not expecting singularity but for Moore's law to work in a suitable direction, we may have to take a step back and see if commercialization is holding back the development of an even smarter, better, more human AI.
It's just a problem of managing expectations. The language we use doesn't help either - the term artifical intelligence somehow implies a system that resembles the way humans think. We don't have anything remotely like this. We don't have a faint idea of how to get started on it either.
The machine learning and reinforcement learning techniques that we have are useful in many applications. You shouldn't expect general AI / singularity out of them any time soon and that's fine.