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Re:Keeping up with the overwhelming pace of AI innovation by satvikpendem on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @02:39PM (#35345822)
> But all they can do is to chat, by construction.

Perhaps, but with the ability to traverse the web and interface with applications, there might actually be a qualitative difference from chatbots of yore.

> At the same time, other AIs are constantly progressing at other, useful things, completely ignored by nearly everybody.

Interesting, such as what? Any examples?

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Re:Keeping up with the overwhelming pace of AI innovation by marcosdumay on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:25PM (#35346482)
Well, yeah, the chatbots of today are qualitatively different from the chatbots of yore. That doesn't turn them into secretaries, no matter how much they can mislead you to think they are.

> Interesting, such as what?

Factory robots, terrain traveling, object recognition, speech recognition, voice syntesis... On the symbolic side, have you looked at modern compilers and linters?

Language models should have a huge impact on search. And yes, search is a very impactful thing. But that too requires something a bit different from a chatbot. Not a complete new technology, but different applications.

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