• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Sounds like “the purpose of the system is what it does.” Every invention that gets funding does that. I watched the development of ML techniques over the last decade or so; none of the researchers developing AI would have said that was the purpose. They had much loftier hopes for AI.

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      4 days ago

      Yet the owners don’t care.

      I hate that it’s pushed as a holy grail.