Comment by janalsncm
1 year ago
> We’re no closer to “AI” today than we were 20 years ago.
20 years ago we had barely figured out how to create superhuman agents to play chess. We have now created a new algorithm to solve Go, which is a much harder game.
We then created an algorithm (alpha zero) to teach itself to play any game, and which became the best chess player in the world in hours.
We next created a superhuman poker agent. Poker is even more complex than Go because it involves imperfect information and opponent modeling.
We then created a superhuman agent to play Diplomacy, which requires natural language and cooperation with other humans to reason about imperfect (hidden) information.
You can point a tool at a solution and certainly get results.
Doesn’t mean it’s intelligent.
Solving difficult cognitive tasks is exactly what most people would call “intelligent”.
At what point are we better described as tools?
Humans can be a lot of things.
AI can only do what it knows and what it’s been programmed to do.
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