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by jantissler
736 days ago
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But that's not the point I think. The point to me is: 10 years ago, this seemed nearly impossible to solve. "Weird, impossible sci-fi stuff". Now I have this exact feature in the Photos app of my iPhone. It not only finds my dog in the photos, but correctly determines its breed. It's amazing! And it works locally on my device, no servers involved. But I'm sure many people would argue that it is not "real AI", because it is "just XYZ". So as soon as we figure out how to do it, it's declared banal. Like LLMs. I'm baffled by the people who think it's "just" this or "just" that. That little word "just" buries years of research and several breakthroughs. Somehow, AI is always what AI can't do yet. It's always the next thing. The noise of goal posts being moved is sometimes deafening. And people don't even realize they're doing it. |
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I don't normally like reaching for SciFi in these conversations, as there's always at least one of someone who mistakes a story for reality, and someone who misses the point and accuses the person giving the SciFi as an example of the same…
…but there are two episodes of TNG Trek which come to mind:
1. Elementary, Dear Data: Dr. Pulaski asserts that Data, being a robot, is incapable of solving a mystery to which he does not already know the outcome. Data accepts Dr. Pulaski's challenge and invites her to join them on the holodeck. There, Geordi instructs the computer to create a unique Sherlock Holmes mystery, but accidentally specifies an adversary "who is capable of defeating Data" rather than "Sherlock" and thus shenanigans happen.
2. The Measure of a Man: Lawsuit over "is Data (a) a person with the right to refuse consent; or (b) a thing to be disassembled, studied, replicated, and used as a mechanical servant?"
We've had ongoing arguments about #1 with AI for a long time, even though Chess and Go playing models beating the best human players should've ended this one.
I think we're going to get a lot of real life cases like #2 even when they involve high-fidelity brain uploads.