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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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.
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That you’re comparing ai to 3D TVs is bold, and I respect it. I don’t agree, but ya, you’re correct, a lot of tech ends up being hype.
But so far, month over month for years, I don’t believe we’re seeing that here. I’m pretty sure when this thread started it couldn’t manage multiplication tables. Now it’s solving phd-level math but we don’t care… we just move on to the next thing. It couldn’t count r’s in “strawberry” but now it can do the wordle (the only metric that matters). Again, we don’t raise an eyebrow.
When this thing becomes indispensable to family doctors and saves lives, will anybody care? I think not, because it’s already doing that but we don’t talk about it for some weird reason.
That’s the strangeness for me. Everybody has some arbitrary line in the sand and says “when it can do _this_, I’ll be convinced.” Then it does that and they draw a new line. It’s been happening since before Turing and I don’t get it. We actually believe there’s been this steady march of progress since we invented fire, but today it’s going to come to a full stop?