The day before the asteroid hits, people will still be writing thinkpieces called "But What About The Metaphorical Asteroid...Of Capitalism? Or Did I Just Blow Your Mind?"
Also, some of the stuff going on with machine vision now seems very different from just symbolic rules / concrete pattern matching. Ability to replicate vague artistic styles seems like good example of moving beyond the easily discretized. Obviously still far from human level.
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What neural nets do is approximate a mathematical functions: a mapping from a set of bits to another. I can see the artistic styles used in the experiment being expressed as a mathematical transform: apply some filters, turn a few knobs on your image editor.
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AI has not progressed constantly but rather by fits and starts. And each time the view of what was possible has been over-optimistic, on the "natural language solved by next summer" scale.
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