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The scary thought is this: That's a system which comes up with plausible responses from a big supply of text, but has no underlying model of what it's talking about. That's about the level of behavior seen by most political commentators.

What AI is teaching us is that a lot of stuff we thought was intelligent, isn't very. After programs beat humans at chess, go, and poker, and not with something that's enormously complicated, it became clear that human abilities in that area were perhaps overrated.

Driving, though. That's hard.

As I've pointed out before, what we have for AI now is terrible at "common sense", defined as getting through the next 30 seconds without a major screwup. Manipulation in unstructured situations is hard. Driving is hard.

The stuff AI is lousy at, a monkey can do.