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Originally Posted by Russic
The question I keep coming back to: does it matter? Does it need to emulate intelligence as humans define it in order to change everything?
Sometimes it feels like we’re bees watching the pyramids being built, and we’re unimpressed because the things constructing them can’t see UV light.
If humans experimentally solved about 185,000 protein structures by 2021 and AI can generate 200 million plus predicted structures today, does it really matter if it occasionally trips over riddles or miscounts the letters in “strawberry”? We don’t really need these systems to solve those types of problems, because they’re not real problems.
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I think it does matter. AI implies it can substitute for human thinking. And if it is amazing and capable in some areas, it most have those same capabilities in all areas. And it is amazing at some things. Better than humans. But not universal. This leads to it being used, or demanded to be used in areas it should not, because it can not. This leads to all sorts of unnecessary problems.
If this results in a large economic crash when the promises can't match reality, that's a pretty big failure, right? and then it will set back work, as all tech does when it doesn't live up to promises(how's that 3D thing going?). It also makes us miss the picture of what real AI actually means for humanity. The average person won't care, they'll just think they were duped the first time.
There is nothing wrong with celebrating what we have created, it can be incredible. But the name starts from a false premise, and hides behind it. I dunno, I just find deceit to be a pretty poor way to usher in new technology. We see how humanity reacts to these things in the past, and we should be honest about what it is and isn't.