> I am an AI skeptic. I am baffled by anyone who isn’t. I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (admittedly impressive) ‘machine learning’ field that leads to a general AI
- I share the skepticism towards any progress towards 'general AI' - I don't think that we're remotely close or even on the right path in any way.
- That doesn't make me a skeptic towards the current state of machine learning though. ML doesn't need to lead to general AI. It's already useful in its current forms. That's good enough. It doesn't need to solve all of humanity's problems to be a great tool.
I think it's important to make this distinction and for some reason it's left implicit or it's purposefully omitted from the article.
- I share the skepticism towards any progress towards 'general AI' - I don't think that we're remotely close or even on the right path in any way.
- That doesn't make me a skeptic towards the current state of machine learning though. ML doesn't need to lead to general AI. It's already useful in its current forms. That's good enough. It doesn't need to solve all of humanity's problems to be a great tool.
I think it's important to make this distinction and for some reason it's left implicit or it's purposefully omitted from the article.