Comment by BanditDefender

Comment by BanditDefender 3 days ago

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There is quite a bit of bait-and-switch in AI, isn't there?

"Oh, machine learning certainly is not real learning! It is a purely statistical process, but perhaps you need to take some linear algebra. Okay... Now watch this machine learn some theoretical physics!"

"Of course chain-of-thought is not analogous to real thought. Goodness me, it was a metaphor! Okay... now let's see what ChatGPT is really thinking!"

"Nobody is claiming that LLMs are provably intelligent. We are Serious Scientists. We have a responsibility. Okay... now let's prove this LLM is intelligent by having it take a Putnam exam!"

One day AI researchers will be as honest as other researchers. Until then, Demis Hassabis will continue to tell people that MuZero improves via self-play. (MuZero is not capable of play and never will be)

tim333 2 days ago

Maybe but the film is about Hassabis thinking about thinking and working towards general intelligence that can think. It doesn't really make claims about their existing software regarding that.