>A few months back, the expert consensus was that we were many years away from an AI playing Go at the 9-dan level.
These kinds of predictions are almost always useless. You can always find people who say it'll take n years before x happens, but no one can predict which approaches will work, and how much improvement they'll confer.
> What this underscores, if anything, is the accelerating pace of technological growth, for better or for worse.
What? This is a non-sequitur. Continued advancement doesn't mean that it is accelerating, and even if this does represent an unexpected achievement that doesn't mean that future development will maintain that pace.
Appreciate it for what it is - an historic achievement for AI & ML - and stop trying to attach broader significance to it.
These kinds of predictions are almost always useless. You can always find people who say it'll take n years before x happens, but no one can predict which approaches will work, and how much improvement they'll confer.
> What this underscores, if anything, is the accelerating pace of technological growth, for better or for worse.
What? This is a non-sequitur. Continued advancement doesn't mean that it is accelerating, and even if this does represent an unexpected achievement that doesn't mean that future development will maintain that pace.
Appreciate it for what it is - an historic achievement for AI & ML - and stop trying to attach broader significance to it.