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by visarga 2359 days ago
Apparently there is nothing positive possible in AI, based on your predictions. Is there?
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Apparently, a lot of the positives are broadly overhyped because such hype and misrepresentation keep money in people's pockets, ventures overvalued, universities with a steady pipeline of warm bodies paying 40-50k a year, and a movement sustained. Apparently, you can't do this forever.
Why would there be? Nobody has any sound roadmap on how to encode semantic meaning of words in a database. This preclude any hope of AGI.
Have you heard of word embeddings, and recently of contextual word embeddings based on attention?