alt Hacker NewsThe thing that is so confusing about this is the following fact -
Lets say the frontier of some specific problem or a field in math is at x. X was reached over millenia by incremental steps and sometimes to leaps and jumps.
Now if AI gives us a x + 1 or x + 10 state, aren't there still x + infinite steps to climb? Many of this the AI can never imagine and won't reach by itself without human assist.
Yes, there is a temporary shock and awe because of all the low hanging x + 1 through x+ 1000 fruits for a given sub-domain/problem have been carpet bombed or whatever.. but isn't it turtles all the way!? Won't people soon find something more to develop and solve that takes it further than where it was of this infinite realm of exploration?
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You're asking this of the people who are actually in shock. What do you think "shock" is?
>Many of this the AI can never imagine and won't reach by itself without human assist.
Are you sure about that? It looks like artificial neural networks can, in principle, do anything biological neural networks can do.
I think it's more likely the opposite: there are steps we could never reach without computer assist.