Something I’ve found disappointing in the “AI conversation” around me …
… there hasn’t been enough honest introspection about how this whole thing feels and likely will feel.
Like, there’s something disturbing in AI’s first “success” being “art” and “music”.
There’s something disturbing about how we were never going to be able to help ourselves & are compelled to make things like LLMs, but can still be frightened by its implications.
anger v hype leaves all that out
I mean, it’s a little arbitrary to say “AI begins here”. They’re trained off datasets, but I would say that, for example, OCR is very successful, has been around for a while, and definitely uses machine learning.
Ditto for speech recognition.
On the other hand, none of these are capable of generalized problem-solving, either, AGI, which is really the sort of thing that I’m usually thinking of as being significant.