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SvennoJ on 04 September 2017
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JinxRake said:
SvennoJ said:

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.

Interestingly enough, Facebook does not share your optimistic view on the growth of AIs, following their little episode with their own experiment. AIs developing their own language, ON their own, during interaction between themselves, I think counts as "AIs growing by itself".

 

Don't you?

Facebook? I don't share any views on Facebook :p

AI's growing by going outside the oundaries of their original intentions? Were these AIs not written to develop communication methods? it's not growth if all it does is solve a pre defined search space. Right now AI's are all very narrowly defined expert systems. Nobody really knows how to bring these together to start making a general purpose AI that can actually pick up new skills.