UniversalMomentum t1_ix266pl wrote on November 20, 2022 at 4:06 AM

AI is cool, but robotics actually does a lot more. Humans are fairly smart and imaginative, so AI isn't that great compared to machine learning.

We need things that assemble puzzles for us more than we need AI than can do basic human thought... because we already have more than enough humans to do that, it's the huge variable problems where humans have to coordinate thought together that we see the biggest benefit from machine learning/AI.

2023.. for a most impactful advance? Probably medicine and materials sciences.

One of the fields most sped up recently by machine learning is drug candidates and new molecule candidate in general because machine learning as been very VERY effective in modeling new drug and molecule candidates so we will see the result as a much higher/faster rate of getting experimental drugs and novel materials that use to take WAY more lab work and kind of like random guessing.

Instead of so much lab work and guessing the computer models narrow down these high variable puzzles and unlike some of the more popular questions that dominate out minds like.. how did the universe start or how did life originate these modeling advances produce a lot of real world outcomes.. so you get real results rather faster.

botfiddler t1_ix5gsni wrote on November 20, 2022 at 10:06 PM

I think what you mean by machine learning in your second sentence is often called narrow AI these days. I agree with you partially, at least when it comes to that utter stupid idea of building some kind of AI God. It's not only stupid if it would turn out to be dangerous and would go wrong, the focus and obsession with it is already weird. We can have many tools in form of narrow AI systes used by humans.

Anyways, I want a somewhat human-like AI in robots, to have robot companions (synthetic girlfriends). This is going to be great for quality of life, solving the low birth rates in developed countries and simply one of the most fascinating things.