Intelligence Not Found (404)
Look I am an AI researcher working on the fundamentals of AI. So right now, there are pretty much a lot of work to do. It might look really interesting, but since we are working on this regularly and for a long time, so to us there is nothing extraordinary. We are just simply looking at something that is understood by a few and also trying to understand something that only a few tries to understand.
Previously also I have tried to tell that AI is not everyone’s cup of tea. Only a few could get the opportunity or guts to work at the fundamentals. But the thing is if you get to work at the fundamentals of AI then I am pretty sure you will really feel frustrated by the current hype that is going on around this technology. Truly speaking, till now I couldn’t get a single moment of feel regarding the fact that what we are calling as “AI” is just a buzz and in reality, we haven’t created even 10 percent of really intelligence in even on a single domain.
Also, we need to understand that AI is basically not even AI if it is vulnerable to tiny perturbations. I personally feel is that we are not even at the starting. I have felt that there is so much buzz regarding this tech and this is just because the tech giants have already invested huge in this tech. But in reality, this tech is far away from what we are dreaming right now.
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Another thing is that, people need to understand the basic difference between automation and intelligence. It is basically something like, intelligence always results in automation, but not every automation is intelligence. Automation is the process of using machines to do a job without or least human interference, but intelligence is the capability of designing more optimized methods of automation.
Just because the statistical models are doing well in tasks related to classifications and regressions, we are thinking them to be something real levels of intelligence, but in reality, they are pure mathematical calculations that comes from specific defined rules. On the other hand, intelligence develops from something that is not defined by the current reality of logic and rules, or it might also be that at the current stage we have failed to understand those definite rules and logic.
Look the things are not actually what it seems because many of the fundamentals are not clear, but even after this the businesses are just marketing huge in all these things. So there needs to be a basic understanding regarding the fact that this hype will be there. But on the same fore front people also need to understand when to use what. Right now people are doing each and everything by using AI, and hence the issues in this tech is becoming more and more common but since there have been huge marketing and business related to these, so those mistakes are just sidelined by the glamorous skills of ads and marketing.
Look I am not against any of these, but as a researcher into the fundamentals of this tech, I need you to understand that it is not exactly how it is being showed and it is not anywhere near to it. I am saying this because to develop intelligence artificially we first need to understand how natural intelligence develops and how it evolves. Without knowing it, we will not be having anything near to true intelligence.
Now if you have read this till here you might think of me as someone mad, but looking and understanding the current form, it feels like this hype has just been created as a blanket to something serious research so that even if it comes out right now might be dangerous to the human race. The AI is a tech that is currently there everywhere, but the real AI is hidden somewhere very deep where the actual research and development is actually going on very seriously.
