On: Good Old Fashioned AI is dead, long live New-Fangl...

[sdenton4]

While horses don't consume fossil fuels, they also don't solve the problem of transoceanic flight. Yet for some reason every discussion of airplane design ends up dominated by a vocal contingent of buggy whip salesmen.

[wizzwizz4 → sdenton4]

Turns out, we don't need transoceanic flight; we can put horses on stirrups, and have an elegant system of clockwork to allow them to power a boat.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-past...

[ativzzz → wizzwizz4]

Carmack or someone said that all of the pieces needed for AGI are already solved, it's just a matter of someone scouring through 40+ years of AI research and finding the right papers/techniques and putting the concepts together

[captaincaveman → ativzzz]

I'm not entirely sure we have even identified all the problems of AGI yet, if so would be interested to see that list?

[nonrandomstring → sdenton4]

And while airplanes don't solve the "problem" of human connectedness, it's inevitably a conversation led by advocates of transoceanic flight still hankering for flying cars and living in the Jetsons world of the 1950s futurists - long after transoceanic flight has become an actual problem.

Same thing. Different parochial perspective.

[z3phyr → sdenton4]

And people who work on transoceanic flights advertise unicorns to people.