Google AI In All It's Glory.

@BM, I agree w/ the premise that currently AI is only as intelligent as the programmer, programing it what/how to interpret. However, when I hear/read articles (for example) how AI designed an ultra-efficient wind turbine w/o the help of humans, I'm absolutely optimistic regarding the future of AI.




Never in our lifetimes? Perhaps. But what about.... 25 years? 50, 100, 500 years from now? I can only imagine our technological advancement.

Be very cautious what you read about AI achievements, and especially about who is writing, ghost writing, and sponsoring the articles. I looked up that wind turbine article, assuming that it is the one about AI optimized turbines for specific geographic urban areas in Birmingham. It seems to indicate that the AI was used as a tool by researchers who already had an end goal in mind, and already understood the wind turbine technology pretty well. To me, this is the sensible usage of such a tool—to rapidly modify and evaluate a basic design to be optimized for a specific scenario. However, I also think it is a highly loaded term to call it Artificial Intelligence. What I imagine happened (and I could be wrong about this) is something akin to an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters generating the Gettysburg Address. And then a separate program evaluating the output of the typing monkeys against a well established set of human programmed criteria.

Is that a first step? Sure. But to me, it doesn't imply that the software truly understands the task in a thinking, reasoned way.

I am a cynic about grand claims, because in all honesty, I have been through so many waves of them. Big data, six sigma, every fad computer language and development process, integrating social media into everything, integrating the Internet into everything, memristors, neural networks, solar films, cold fusion, hot fusion, quantum computing, various robotics, ethanol cars—the list of buzzy tech that produces swooning reviews is endless. Most of that stuff never comes to pass in any meaningful way. Some of it turns out to be pretty good at a restricted set of problems. A very few things like the Internet or smartphones can transform society. Just remember that all of it gets pumped in the early phases by consultants, marketers, and tech "pundits" as a miracle technology that will blow your mind and alter planet Earth as we know it.

I honestly think that the only thing AI is really going to reveal about society is that a whole lot of human jobs are rote, repetitive, rules based, and require zero actual judgment or creativity. AI might also turn out to be pretty good in restrictive situations where it can evaluate many possibilities far faster than a human—and that is absolutely useful. I think the endgame in many years will be similar to the bartender in Passengers. Efficient at a particular task, with a great veneer for interacting with humans by mimicking a personality, and utterly clueless outside those parameters because it isn't actually intelligent or able to apply reasoning like a real human.

As it should be.

Exactly. But, it has to start somewhere. Growing pains.

LOL! I also see these adds popping up on my phone.
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That sounds perfectly legit. right?

I shouldn't let this out; however, I do have a few dozen of those Bicentennial rarities. At $2.2 billion per...

Guys, I think I'm the richest man on the planet. I found over 300 of these coins in coin rolls!!! I'm going to sell all of these for 660 billion! /s <— put up sarcasm tag since I'm still a new member.
It's crazy some organization is actually spreading this crazy misinformation. Lol