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Is General Artificial Intelligence a Breakthrough or just a Financial Hype?

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According to my understanding, AI hype big corps spend a whole country's energy resource to produce learning software and hardware which can do a very little things for us.  Laughing

On the other hands, a parrot can learn how to talk with men with just a few grams of nutrition.  Also, my little puppy learnt how to do simple house hood things for me in just a few minutes and a few grams fo nutrition. Blush

Which one of these examples are more intelligent and energy efficient?

Had we better use those astronomical sum of money and resources on investigating deeper natural laws such as room temperature superconductivity, novel material and crystal, higher energy experiments beyond the Large Hadron Collider, nuclear fusion experiments, etc.?

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  • The thing about Hype is that you create a Fear of Missing Out among the technologist who really do not understand the technology involved.

    I have been following AI for over 45 years and it has never been more overhyped.

    In all of these years, it still has not produced a reasonable and reliable product.

    Sad really, but clearly all of these companies have more money than sense, so they are rushing ahead before they actually have anything to sell.

    Makes for good stock trading though.

    I keep an eye on prices and stories to look for a good trade.

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  • The thing about Hype is that you create a Fear of Missing Out among the technologist who really do not understand the technology involved.

    I have been following AI for over 45 years and it has never been more overhyped.

    In all of these years, it still has not produced a reasonable and reliable product.

    Sad really, but clearly all of these companies have more money than sense, so they are rushing ahead before they actually have anything to sell.

    Makes for good stock trading though.

    I keep an eye on prices and stories to look for a good trade.

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  • in reply to DAB

    I studied Robotics in late 1980's. I suspect it's much the same. While intention and ambition of what you wanted robotics to achieve hasn't changed much, the ability to deliver certainly has in the last few years.

    IMO, AI or neural networks is much the same. For example, we have had driverless trains for decades but it is only very recently that you can throw in more ambiguity and uncertainty and the ability to navigate safely through those challenges far exceeds what was possible only a couple of years ago.

    It is this new ability and processing capability that has captured the imagination of the masses. Especially as it makes mundane parts of life easier and more entertaining. E.g. writing letters or creating songs and silly videos.

  • in reply to DAB

    Same experience and thought as DAB.  I think the most interesting thing about the current wave of AI is how good natural language processing has become.  A genuinely useful solution from decades of work.  As for “look-up-masquerading-as-intelligence” in general, I’m wholly unimpressed with the hype and marketing.