red_tomato comments on AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’

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[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 41 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

AI is about making machines that mimic human level intelligence. Whether they possess actual intelligence doesn’t matter. They just need to act intelligently.

You can disagree with the terminology, but it has been an active field of study since the 1950s.

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[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Remember the Turing test? Damn goal posts move faster than the ball. I’m not sure how one could fail to be impressed by the technological advancements in the last 3 years in the field

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 child)

Sort of.

I think Turing thought, "well something that could do this would surely HAVE to be intelligent", but I seriously doubt that he would have waved the white flag for an intelligence that can convincingly mimic human communication but can't count letters in a word.

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[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 weeks ago

Well the Test now includes casual tasks like counting letters, doesn’t it? You have to move your head in a certain way to spot the leopard in the shaded forest.

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