He adds that many aspects of what we consider being human, such as the semantics behind language, cannot be reproduced with a computer algorithm. You will never reproduce it --
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Is this true? Seems like a big deal if it is. If true, then I would conclude that we can never create a human level AI
Nothing in the history or current path of AI would suggest that human communication can be represented by an algorithm. Every attempt to program human communication results in stilted, unnatural prose that must be carefully curated and edited. Even those tools only work in limited contexts with huge training sets of data.
There is nothing about a brute-force machine learning algorithm that describes human language. It's like saying that a monkey could build a brick building because he was able to accidentally stack two bricks on each other by flinging bricks around. That does not show any understanding of the process of building anymore than ML algorithms show any understanding of the meaning of speech.
This article is a bit silly, it reads like a university professor has discovered that business people promote and productize inventions more than they do original research and he's upset about it. R&D is almost always incremental and parallel. There will always be hindsight to say "this is just like something we invented previously (see Schmidhuber)", if that was true, where is your company that does this successfully?
There are lots of reasons to be sceptical of Elon Musk and his companies, but they are to in the article.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 27.2 ms ] threadIs this true? Seems like a big deal if it is. If true, then I would conclude that we can never create a human level AI
There is nothing about a brute-force machine learning algorithm that describes human language. It's like saying that a monkey could build a brick building because he was able to accidentally stack two bricks on each other by flinging bricks around. That does not show any understanding of the process of building anymore than ML algorithms show any understanding of the meaning of speech.
There are lots of reasons to be sceptical of Elon Musk and his companies, but they are to in the article.