Jens OhligI wish more people understood that "I want the computer to generate a natural language text that sounds like a plausible answer to a question about x" and "I want the computer to answer a question about x" are two very different problems.
Ok Guy Official@johl the former is sufficient to replace a lot of jobs though. AI is simultaneously over and under-blown. It’s not the singularity or consciousness or anything like that, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t going to be a transformative technology that economically displaces a whole lot of people.
sabik@bulkington @johl
A lot of unkind comments could be made about fields of endeavour where the two are equivalent
A lot of unkind comments could be made about fields of endeavour where the two are equivalent