This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
When I ask whether we should be afraid that AIs will soon grow so powerful that they pose a hazard to us, he quips: “You’re going to have to pardon my French, but that’s complete B.S.”
…the sci-fi is still fi.
Way back in the 1970s there was a flurry of excitement for something called expert systems. It was an attempt to make a database of questions and answers so that, for example, a washing machine repairman who encountered a problem on the job could describe that problem to a computer and get advice on fixing it.
I was doing some work for an office machine manufacturer at the time. They thought it would revolutionize their repair service. It didn't. They gave up. Everybody else gave up too.
Today's AI is basically the same thing but with an order of magnitude more answers. And not all of them, by any measure, from experts. It seems to work a little better. But take over the world?
Bet on the cat.
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