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> The researchers actually busy solving the hard problems of vision, natural language understanding, and common sense, do not have time to write books about how AI is not yet general. I've come to terms with the hype. There are still researchers doing the hard theoretical work, and they will still be toiling away after the next economic downturn. We can all choose every day whether to find fulfillment through seeking attention from other people, money, or satisfying our curiosity to solve problems. > Nobody from the research community ever claimed that [AGI], nobody came forward to claim they've solved these decade-old problems. It is people selling books railing against the popular reporting of AI. Boring, self-serving, and predictive, and you do not need to fit a curve to see that. Hear hear! That said, this is a good article by a respected researcher. Here's what LeCun had to say about it, > ...In general, I think a lot of people who see the field from the outside criticize the current state of affair without knowing that people in the field actively work on fixing the very aspects they criticize. > That includes causality, learning from unlabeled data, reasoning, memory, etc. [1] [1] https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10156387222842143 |