alt Hacker NewsWhat goalposts do you think are being moved? I constantly see AI enthusiasts use this phrase, but it’s not clear what goalposts they have in mind. Specifically, what is it that you want opponents to recognize that you believe they aren’t currently?
We now have a tool that can be useful in some narrow domains in some narrow cases. It’s pretty neat that our tools have new capabilities, but it’s also pretty far from AGI.
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inertiatic • today at 1:06 AM
>We now have a tool that can be useful in some narrow domains in some narrow cases.
I get being reserved about where this goes, but saying something like this is quite insane at this point.
whimsicalism • yesterday at 9:53 PM
You must have forgotten the /s at the end of your comment?
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I'm not an enthusiast. I'm a Butlerian.
Imagine hearing pre-attention-is-all-you-need that "AI" could do something that Donald Knuth could not (quickly solve the stated problem in collaboration with his friend).
The idea that this (Putnam perfect, IMO gold, etc) is all just "statistical parrot" stuff is wearing a little thin.