Microsoft pumps $1 billion into generalized artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is improving at a rapid rate, its most recent scalp a band of professional poker players in a round of Texas hold-em. But could these artificial smarts become generalized enough to outperform humans at all kinds of tasks, rather than very specific and pre-defined ones? Open AI is an organization focused on ensuring such an advance does the world good, rather than bad, and has just landed a lucrative new partner in the form of Microsoft, which will develop advanced supercomputers to help it do the job.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Microsoft pumps $1 billion into generalized artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is improving at a rapid rate, its most recent scalp a band of professional poker players in a round of Texas hold-em. But could these artificial smarts become generalized enough to outperform humans at all kinds of tasks, rather than very specific and pre-defined ones? Open AI is an organization focused on ensuring such an advance does the world good, rather than bad, and has just landed a lucrative new partner in the form of Microsoft, which will develop advanced supercomputers to help it do the job.

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Where artificial intelligence has failed so far.

• Fuzzy logic, eg. Applied to a washing machine.
• Printed text recognition, machine learning fails to take account of predefined fonts.
• Voice recognition, you see the failures every minute in TV subtitles.
• Macine vision, fails to subtract one frame from the next to detect movement.
• Robotics, fails to use Newtons law F = M A.
• Neural nets, fails to include a forgettary.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Microsoft pumps $1 billion into generalized artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is improving at a rapid rate, its most recent scalp a band of professional poker players in a round of Texas hold-em. But could these artificial smarts become generalized enough to outperform humans at all kinds of tasks, rather than very specific and pre-defined ones? Open AI is an organization focused on ensuring such an advance does the world good, rather than bad, and has just landed a lucrative new partner in the form of Microsoft, which will develop advanced supercomputers to help it do the job.

more…

Where artificial intelligence has failed so far.

• Fuzzy logic, eg. Applied to a washing machine.
• Printed text recognition, machine learning fails to take account of predefined fonts.
• Voice recognition, you see the failures every minute in TV subtitles.
• Macine vision, fails to subtract one frame from the next to detect movement.
• Robotics, fails to use Newtons law F = M A.
• Neural nets, fails to include a forgettary.
  

I think that natural intelligence combined with artificial number crunching has a few years left in it yet, nonetheless we should keep an eye on these things.