You're just dismissing the possibility that Google genuinely believes this is a step toward more useful AI... Even if they're wrong.
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I think that’s quite likely. Presumably the confusion starts with DeepMind themselves. (I assume they honestly believe they’ve done something important.) Then, plausibly, they’ve confused Alphabet’s upper management.
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So then why the conspiracy theories? If they're wrong, focus on that. Why insinuate nefariousness?
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Deception does not necessarily imply bad intentions. E.g. the whole field of “neural networks” is deceptive inasmuch as they have zero to do with actual neural networks.
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People working in the field know that, but the public doesn’t. My moral judgement is that intellectual honesty would demand a consensus within the field to change the term, but reasonable people could disagree on that.
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Similarly, when people at Google talk to reporters about what AlphaGo does, they probably say “intuition” a lot [I don’t know] because what else can you say to a reporter that doesn’t know calculus?
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I think intellectual honesty would compel Google to issue a statement saying “this has nothing whatsoever to do with intuition,” but ymmv
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Can you point me to some resources which describe this in more detail? I've read Hubert Dreyfus, so I don't believe expect general intelligence, but AlphaGo still is a breakthrough in self-teaching programs?
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I haven’t gone looking for critiques of AlphaGo. The one I RT’d earlier today is a good start. There may be others, I don’t know. If I start enumerating the problems with the work myself, I’d end up writing a blog post… which I want to avoid!
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Oh, this critique, referenced in the one I RT’d earlier today, is good: https://medium.com/@karpathy/alphago-in-context-c47718cb95a5 …
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Note that Karpathy is a true believer when it comes to DL, and even so he doesn’t think AlphaGo is interesting.
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