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It took less than 20 years to reach that milestone! I wonder what reaction those experts had to Alphago's success.

They were only off by 81+ years, dont be so harsh! /s

Reminds me of the average Redditer on tech subs tbh.

It did happen in the next century

Or two 😆

Same with the we will not have planes for thousands of years and then it happens just after that.

We will never use nuclear fuel as power and then it happens just after that.

Never say never.

This was written during the AI winter.

There were so many AI experts trying to beat Go that they saw many, many problems. So the lesson is that computers can get really good at one thing, providing that there are clear rules.

I think that Generative AI will crash and burn soon. I mean, look at ChatGPT. You need top GPUs to work a long time using a huge network that is not even trained on all the text on the Web. You could maybe increase the size of the network a thousand times, but you will need more than a thousand times more GPUs. Much more. And at inference time you still need the parameters. I am afraid it will not be enough to accommodate multimodal abilities and larger context windows.

I always laugh at people who think in centuries

We have a reddit expert here

How is it they're going to crash and burn when they've already revolutionized industries such as programming, content creation/writing, etc? The demand for LLMs has only just begun.

20 years is on the same order of magnitude as 100

It's not that ridiculous

If I say by 2050 is that also laughable ?

Maybe not laughable but possibly risky because changes could happen 10 or 100 times faster than that.

Or 10 to 100 times slower.

The future is hard to predict. The past predictions mostly failed because they were too aggressive not because they were too conservative most of the time

This is a small exception

There's actually a good lesson here. Deep Blue was completely predictable decades out, if you believed in continued accelerating returns that is. AlphaGo wasn't. Luckily it was just about a game that time.

Maybe not decades out but there were computers that played go several years prior to alphago with lower elo rating

In fact alphagos elo rating is continuous with previous systems that played go. It wasn't a breakthrough. Just a flashy display because it was against superstar Lee sedol.