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Snypnz t1_j3bu26z wrote

Sounds like you just have an issue with the term AI, sure, they aren't self aware or capable of learning things they aren't specifically programmed to learn, but still find it very impressive that we are able to write programs that can solve problems and spit out answers that a human may never find.

An AI can run through every possible outcome much much faster than a human can, and has perfect memory and no biases. Right now they are only learning simple games, but in a matter of hours can go from complete novice to world champion, beating humans who have spent their whole life trying to perfect their game.

The idea and hope is, one day these programs can do much more complicated things like solve world economic problems, energy problems, climate problems ect. and hopefully don't turn against us in the process

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thedude0425 t1_j3c19x7 wrote

Good answer.

The only thing that I’ll point out are that AI do develop biases for reasons we don’t quite understand yet. It’s apparently incredibly difficult to look under the hood of a neural network and understand what data points (or lack thereof) are triggering these biases.

An example are facial recognition AIs struggling to identify unique black faces.

Another would be an AI program focused on college student admissions filtering out literal poor people from an admissions process.

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Snypnz t1_j3cit1u wrote

I have also heard that about looking under the hood, when I said no biases, I meant more like a poker AI not going all in cause it thinks 6 is its lucky number kinda thing haha.

We can take guesses on what causes the biases in the examples you mentioned, like black faces maybe having less contrast in photos making it more difficult to identify features or even as simple as the training data not being diverse enough, but like you said, very hard to say for sure until we can see the exact process the AI took.

Personally I find AI a very interesting and impressive

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