This sounds like marketing hype. Giving AI reasoning is a problem researchers have been failing to solve since Marvin Minsky in the 1960s, and there is still no fundamental breakthrough on the horizon. Even DeepMind’s latest effort is tame; it just suggests getting AI to check itself more accurately against external sources.
there is still no fundamental breakthrough on the horizon.
I mean, we’re currently in the midst of one, so that might be obscuring the horizon somewhat. Modern AIs are able to reason in ways that no AIs could previously, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
This sounds like marketing hype.
Yeah, this is exactly my thoughts aswell. If AI truly had reasoning capabilities, it would be global front page news.
Hi Lugh,
thanks for this nice link (and article).Researchers in the domain express increasing worryiness on this topic :
"… Reinforcement learning (RL) agents that plan over a long time horizon far more effectively than humans present particular risks. (…)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0625
(i don’t have access to the full article)My opinion is that we should hope and worry (at least a little bit).
