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The Limits of Artificial Intelligence

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39 pointspetethomas9 comments

Pop-AI reporting is such utter garbage. All it does is misinform the public and spread false ideas and conceptions about AI and computer science. You end up with old folks who are scared that computers are going to take over, and young folks who think the "singularity" will happen within the next 10 years.

In the end this article doesn't even say anything. The gist of it is that "well automation may not always work." Yeah, no shit it won't always work in every case. It's just a reporter writing an article with an eye-catching headline that people will upvote and spread without reading.

This article is literally clickbait disguised as a serious position with no actual argument in there.

When your article says the "Limits of artificial intelligence" and you then then go on to talk about chat bots and a couple of other extremely superficial products as you examples. When you then suddenly switch to talk about automation and end up with not really showing any limites of AI (and wrongly apply it only to computational power) you know you got something that was not written for any other reason than to get some clicks.

Agreed. I do think their point about amazon's head count steadily increasing is interesting. But on the other hand, they seem to be giving amazon too much credit as being an AI cheerleader. It's not, never has been.

The reason why it's increasing is because they are winning business. You can's use that for anything other than anecdotal evidence. You need to look at the industry as a whole if you want to say anything meaningful or conclusive and not even that is enough.

The article does manage to use a lot of words to saying nothing more than "we don't know" and such.

What are the limits? well considering how immature the field is do we really know? I thought the idea was to eliminate limits as we find them.

the real point the public and others need to understand is that robotics and AI are going to hit all levels of employment to even include management. From high paid analyst to burger flippers. there is technological opportunities for all, it comes down to cost and reliability.

"The Limits of My Own Intellect"

I was going to write an article about the limits of AI, but then I became self-aware. I realized I have nothing in the way of formal proof or careful philosophical argument. I decided to withhold my sophomoric opinions, wait, and see.

Grasping. Grasping for unrelated tidbits to make a point you set out to make, before you reviewed the facts.

Using 4chan vs. Tay as an example of the limit of chat support bots. Using Netflix's 2012 competition ensembles developed over 1.5 years as an example of AI being too expensive. Telling us that AI will fail when you don't have any data to input it.

Just replace AI with IT/Computer Science and see what remains of this fluff piece.

God damn I hate articles about AI. Journalists are the annoying "are we there yet" in the back of the computer science van. Researchers should just do what my mom did and say "one more hour" no matter what.

Computers are amazing. We literally made a rock crunch numbers. Now it's handling harder problems, and no its not "there yet," but shut up with the nay-saying about limits for a few more decades while work gets done.

I'd rather have articles talking about how AI won't destroy every job in existence (which is closer to reality) than the million universal basic income and singularity bullshit articles.

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