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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals, which involves consciousness and emotionality. The distinction between the former and the latter categories is often revealed by the acronym chosen.
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No, I agree, there is huge potential to get back on the curve or even blow right through it, but currently and over roughly the last decade, moores law has been dead. At some point in future compute will grow massively. Humans have only been around for 10,000 years, and silicon tech isn't even a blim in that history. Give it another 10, 100, 1000 years, we will be able to brute force anything we currently think is out of scope. But in the short term, the here and now, it's worth exploring more elegant solutions that don't require compute beyond our current availability
Yeah, I'm not arguing against efficiency on the software side. The way I read the article isn't really that it advocates for brute force, but rather that we should be focusing on general solutions because they scale. The work on efficiency should focus on how to make search and statistical inference more efficient. Incidentally, we see a lot of that work happening in China right now precisely because they don't have as much compute to work with.