haha, yes, let's claim singularity is at hand boardgame by boardgame. Get real.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Junk_lzn and
Platonic-Hegelian sneering at AlphaZero is exactly what is to be expected from dementia-phase neohumanism.
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Replying to @Outsideness @NegarestaniReza and
... Retcon the entire AI literature to remove all hints about what machine triumph in Go was going to mean.
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Replying to @Outsideness @NegarestaniReza and
>the entire AI literature I read Google's press release. all we were given was the vague reassurance that "the same technology" could be used to manage climate change, and handle other international crises. this was 4 years ago... in that time, they've taught it to play chess.
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Replying to @Junk_lzn @Outsideness and
Deep learning is being used for climate forecasting though. Sorry the research community isn't keeping you personally in-the-know.
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Replying to @higherOrderNet @Outsideness and
Oh I'm sure it is, but its not nearly as socially groundbreaking as it was hyped up to be. and its not alphazero that's doing the forecasting. and its not a general AI
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Replying to @Junk_lzn @higherOrderNet and
how these technologies get used isn't going to be because they're so much better, autonomous or revolutionary and all that. these problems have always been social in nature, a set of fancy new algorithms won't change history
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Replying to @Junk_lzn @Outsideness and
Alphzero is a stepping stone, an example of reinforcement learning, an exciting area. Another new area is attention networks. You can play with one here: https://talktotransformer.com/
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Replying to @higherOrderNet @Junk_lzn and
It was trained on billions of documents of English text but picked up the ability to autocomplete basic python and java functions.
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Replying to @higherOrderNet @Junk_lzn and
While each advance is interesting, what's more significant is that they keep coming, and rapidly.
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What thread is this? The mum jokes or the corona.
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