Sep 28, 2022
Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Melanie Mitchell: How Close Are We to AI?
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: employment, internet, robotics/AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI), a term first coined at a Dartmouth workshop in 1956, has seen several boom and bust cycles over the last 66 years. Is the current boom different?
The most exciting advance in the field since 2017 has been the development of “Large Language Models,” giant neural networks trained on massive databases of text on the web. Still highly experimental, Large Language Models haven’t yet been deployed at scale in any consumer product — smart/voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, Cortana, or the Google Assistant are still based on earlier, more scripted approaches.
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