[LINK] Does current AI represent a dead end?

[Tom Worthington]

On 5/12/24 15:33, Kim Holburn wrote:
> https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/does-current-ai-represent-a-dead-end
> 
> ... Current AI systems have no internal structure that relates meaningfully 
> to their functionality. ...

The clever bit about Generative AI is it produces useful results without 
apparently "knowing" anything. There are other ways to do AI.

This form of criticism seems to be saying: "But it shouldn't work!".

This current fad for generative AI will likely pass, but will boost 
funding of other approaches. An example is Google's DeepMind which was 
awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry for protein prediction AI. They 
originally set out to have the system learn purely on its own. That did 
not work, so they added some explicit knowledge of chemistry. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind


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Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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