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AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A much larger problem is that the energy consumption is several orders of magnitude larger than that of our brain. I’m not convinced that we have enough energy to make a standalone “AI”.

This is a major issue I have with basically anyone who talks about current "AI" systems - they're clearly not even close to AI, as they require an extreme amount of energy and data to perform tasks which would be trivial to an actual brain. They seem to lack any ability to comprehend their input, only mimicking it through brute force, which is only feasible since computers got fast enough and we can currently keep up with the energy demands.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AI does not mean artificial brain or anything similar. It's a very broad term that's been in use for about 70 years now.

Pac Man has AI.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Obviously I'm not referring to that, but to what large tech companies call AI. And they are in fact trying to convince people these AI systems they are developing will soon be clever enough to be considered general AI.