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nanarchy on 04 September 2017
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SvennoJ said:
nanarchy said:

tell that to the generation when the car arrived, or the generation when electricy arrived, or the generation when industrialization took off or when globalisation kicked in or my generation where computers started. Every generation thinks their situation is harder or special, the reality is if anything this change is actually far slower than some of the major upheavals in just the last century or so alone, AI has been a slow advancing beast for the last 20 or 30 years. I did my honours in AI way back in the early 90's and while it has come a long way since then it has been a very slow crawl compared to other advancements and still has a long way to go.

Ah nice, I studied AI in the early 90's as well, and we still can't have a reliable conversation with an automated system over the phone, 25 years later. So far the smartest things I've seen computer programs do is crash or get in infinite loops in innovative ways :) I think we're still a long way off from AI that can actually grow by itself.

My grandfather went from not having electricity and getting coal delivered for heating to sending emails in his life time, things aren't progressing as fast nowadays. Although I still have half a lifetime to go.

exactly. unfortunately too many people use the media and movies as to there idea of what AI can and is achieving, companies overhype and mislabel things as AI further adding to the general publics confusion. AI is still incredibly basic, The expert Systems they write today are not much different to the ones I was writing 20 years ago with the exception they have more data and processing power and a prettier interface, the technology is still a long way away. We are not just a long way off from real AI, it is so far off we can't even begin to guess when it will be developed.