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by overfl0w 379 days ago
This reminds me of Asimov's Jokester story where the same themes are explored - there is an all-knowing computer but someone needs to ask the correct questions.

"Early in the history of Multivac, it had become apparent that the bottleneck was the questioning procedure. Multivac could answer the problem of humanity, all the problems, if it were asked meaningful questions. But as knowledge accumulated at an ever-faster rate, it became ever more difficult to locate those meaningful questions. Reason alone wouldn't do. What was needed was a rare type of intuition; the same faculty of mind (only much more intensified) that made a grand master at chess. A mind was needed of the sort that could see through the quadrillions of chess patterns to find the one best move, and do it in a matter of minutes."

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That chess metaphor didn't age well
That is the goal post moving, its done by AI optimists that thinks "we just need something that can solve X and it will be as smart as a human expert".

Wasn't true for chess, wasn't true for Go, we will see when its true, but they are constantly moving the goalposts and then arguing its others who are moving it.