@ylecun: People are realizing that AIs are nowhere near human intelligence and learning abilities. Yet they have become very use…
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Yann LeCun observes that current AI systems, while far from human-like intelligence and learning, have become useful by compensating for their lack of common sense and reasoning with vast amounts of declarative knowledge, sparking a debate on AI capabilities.
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People are realizing that AIs are nowhere near human intelligence and learning abilities. Yet they have become very useful by compensating for their lack of common sense, lack of understanding of reality, and limited reasoning and planning abilities, by the accumulation of enormous amounts of declarative knowledge.
will depue@willdepue·22h: bro it isn’t generally intelligent bro its only read every book and paper ever written and just making connections between them bro. its only thinking for twenty hours bro it’s just brute force thinking bro. its only solving erdos problems bro it could never be an accountant bro
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