Hypothetically? Machine translation that doesn't suck. Virtual assistants that don't suck. Things like that.
Only with true, human-level artificial general intelligence will computers be able to translate a PDF containing a table without fucking up the formatting.
"What is my purpose?" "You format the document."
More seriously, why does an AI need to emulate full human intelligence and respond to prompts to call itself sentient in order to translate a document, order a pizza from the restaurant or tell me what the weather is today?
Being able to parse language and form coherent sentences is one thing. Telling the prompter that you're a sentient being is another.
> why does an AI need to emulate full human intelligence and respond to prompts to call itself sentient in order to translate a document
I have absolutely zero experience with AI, machine learning, etc. but I feel like translating a document is something that having near-human intelligence would be very useful because of how much context is lost in translation. Is that incorrect, though?
Again, not disagreeing at all, I just want to iron out what is misconception on my part.
But realistically, might this bring on the SkyNet attack if we abuse AI so?