Scott Aaronson is one of the world's top experts on quantum computers, but he also knows something about conventional computers and AI, yesterday he gave his opinion on AlphaCode. After listing some of the programs limitations he concludes with:
*"Forget all that. Judged against where AI was 20-25 years ago, when I was a student, a dog is now holding meaningful conversations in English. And people are complaining that the dog isn’t a very eloquent orator, that it often makes grammatical errors and has to start again, that it took heroic effort to train it, and that it’s unclear how much the dog really understands.It’s not obvious how you go from solving programming contest problems to conquering the human race or whatever, but I feel pretty confident that we’ve now entered a world where “programming” will look different."* AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English <https://scottaaronson.blog/> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> aqq fsj > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3MzG_%3DaiU0Fo%3D4m6pZXL1KQiB-QuRFwOHwqj1ey2ZsMQ%40mail.gmail.com.
