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SejaGentil t1_irdj74r wrote

Reply to comment by Tanglemix in We are in the midst of the biggest technological revolution in history and people have no idea by DriftingKing

Word to Image is just the first thing that works though. In the future we will probably have way more sophisticated and precise tools. Stable Diffusion's image to image for example. And its reverse prompt feature allow you to load yourself into the AI and make exact copies of you in any pose you want, no need for words. So I kind of not agree that's the limitation of AIs, it isn't. I do think AIs are very limited on reasoning and, ironically, creativity. They can't create new concepts that weren't done before. Like, if you ask DALL-E to create a dragon, it will. If you ask it to create a city, it will. Mix the two and the results will be awful. The dragon will never mix with the city well enough. Similarly, GPT-3 will gladly tell you the answer to any sophisticated question... that you can find on Wikipedia. Now, ask it to solve the simplest problem that it has no memory of yet, and it will fail miserably. Honestly these technologies feel like the most stupid human to ever be born, who compensated it with a memory the size of Earth, who memorized the entire Wikipedia.

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Tanglemix t1_irf7tv8 wrote

I agree, this is why I think the term 'Artificial Intelligence' is a bit misleading. A better term would be 'Simulated Intelligence' because what these programmes seem to do is leverage speed and processing power to mimic-but not really replicate- the way that real intelligence works.

So you get this initial impression that something genuinely intelligent is at work only to find that this was something of an illusion, and that what you really have is a highly specialised system that does some things extraordinarily well, but other quite simple things are beyond it's comprehension.

I think this may explain why so often developments in AI seem to promise so much and yet so often fail to deliver. I am still waiting for that self driving taxi to pull up outside my house, but so far no luck.

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