Quote (stellanuova @ Jun 15 2023 05:44am)
Modern AI is not even true artificial intelligence. It's neither sentient nor has the ability to learn. They're all glorified statistical tools that output generalizations
This is what most people don't understand about our current narrow AI. The systems we have now have no conception of what they are doing.
Our current narrow AI has no ability to parse any of the meaning in this following story:
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A man went into a restaurant and ordered a hamburger, cooked rare. When it arrived, it was burned to a crisp. The waitress stopped by the man's table. "Is the burger okay?" she asked. "Oh, it's just great," the man said, pushing back his chair and storming out of the restaurant without paying. The waitress yelled after him, "Hey, what about the bill?" She shrugged her shoulders, muttering under her breath, "Why is he so bent out of shape?"
Our current systems don't know if a bill here is a legislative document, the beak of a bird. It doesn't understand the analogy of a person being bent out of shape. It doesn't understand the sarcasm of "oh, it's just great".
Our current systems are good at some things, but aren't replacements for thinking humans. They are tools for thinking humans to be able to do their work more quickly. We are a long way away from an AI system actually understanding something as basic as an analogy. There are a lot of things a human infant can do very easily that at our current state of AI is not possible.