When the first AlphaGo results came out, I got quite annoyed, and polled twitter about whether I should write a debunking.
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you don't think anyone would have been interested in a computer program that could beat the best human go players???
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My expectation is that, without a massive disinformational PR campaign, the public would not have considered that at all interesting.
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I've literally never heard anyone claim it's modelling human intuition... But I've no claim to a representative bubble.
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The breakthrough isn't that it's modeling *human* intuition, but that we're seeing AI intuition (speaking loosely) become much more capable, w/ less specification of domain details from humans I'd like to see a full critique. I don't think many AI researchers share your view
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I’m tempted (as I said) but that would be a LOT of work!
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if you want "hype" around incremental engineering results, you create benchmark goals and then celebrate when they're completed
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beating humans at go was a benchmark goal. alphago did that. people celebrated.
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I'm interested ;)
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