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by anon291 20 days ago
The goal posts keep changing. First it was, it's not intelligent if it can't come up with something new. Now it has to seek out self help literature
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The goalposts keep moving because people once upon a time thought that "able to perform tasks intelligently" and "able to take the role of a person" were the same thing, and task by task that turned out to be entirely false.
Well sure, so I think we need to figure out what we want. Why do we want a computer to take on the role of a person? Having something pretty intelligent to which I can delegate many tasks is already useful.