cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20858435

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes show new proof that those claims are overblown and unlikely to ever come to fruition. Their findings are published in Computational Brain & Behavior today.

  • @JayDee so two things.

    First: sure, we can redefine words in any way we want, but then:

    1. talking about “AI” becomes much less interesting if it merely means “walking a decision tree based on data coming from external sensors”

    2. the whole talk about “intelligence” becomes a bait-and-switch, as the conversation started with the term “intelligence” being used in the general sense we tend to apply to people and some higher-order animals.