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Fair enough. I was more impressed with the DeepMind thing learning to play Atari games than the fake human. I guess the fake human is a nice little fluffy tie in with their show but at least they touched on some actual AI projects briefly and some of the issues we might need to be thinking about before we unleash learning tech on the masses.
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Not by a long mile. I love this biz. I firmly believe we should be pouring resources into this at an accelerated rate for a faster return on the research. Not even financially, but in every avenue of our lives.
My issues to pick is the broad brush the concept of artificial intelligence is being painted with. When you listen to people in the field talk about 'it', they make a pretty concise distinction between machine learning and strict AI.
Which brings me to the point I raged on over. TV as predictably as it does dumb down, does imprint people with the idea that we are somewhere nearer to producing some form of AI that is, as the basis for it's idea, self ware.
I'm not even talking about the turing test. That's been debunked as flawed many times over.
Am I griping over nothing? Probably, but skipping the 'how' and jumping to the theoretical dramatics of the AI physically being there/becoming aware only serves to cripple itself when people start realising we are, scientifically, nowhere near creating one.
The hell do I know though, I just fix bicycles.