Comment by addcommitpush
2 years ago
There's a fellow that kinda predicted it in 1950 [0]:
> These arguments take the form, "I grant you that you can make machines do all the things you have mentioned but you will never be able to make one to do X."
> [...]
> The criticisms that we are considering here are often disguised forms of the argument from consciousness, Usually if one maintains that a machine can do one of these things, and describes the kind of method that the machine could use, one will not make much of an impression.
Every time "learning machines" are able to do a new thing, there's a "wait, it is just mechanical, _real_ intelligence is the goalpost".
[0] https://www.espace-turing.fr/IMG/pdf/Computing_Machinery_and...
>Every time "learning machines" are able to do a new thing, there's a "wait, it is just mechanical, _real_ intelligence is the goalpost".
Just because people shift the goalposts doesn't mean that the new position of the goalposts isn't closer to being correct than the old position. You can criticise the people for being inconsistent or failing to anticipate certain developments, but that doesn't tell you anything about where the goalposts should be.