With chatGPT and A.I. generated art and so on, it seems like A.I. is really getting some traction. What has changed that we couldn’t do that before?
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> With chatGPT and A.I. generated art and so on
I think it’s important to distinguish the text/art generation systems from serious machine learning research. The former have had vast amounts of money and computational power thrown at them in recent years because they capture people’s attention and seem interesting to the clueless rich people who decide where humanity’s resources are spent, but it’s not really clear that they serve any purpose, and they probably aren’t a significant step towards actual AI.
The serious research focuses on less glamorous tasks like facial recognition and spotting things in medical scans. It has been developing rapidly in recent years, due to a combination of increases in available computational power, various theoretical advances, and increased academic attention. But there hasn’t really been a massive sudden breakthrough like the media would have you believe.
Actual AI – something that could rival the intelligence of a human – still isn’t really on the horizon. People have only the vaguest idea of how it might be achieved.
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