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DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI.::DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat. In a recent conversation I had with him, he told me that generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI: bots that can carry out tasks you set for them by calling on other software…

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[–] Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough but it just seems like a fluffy distinction.

And I don't think they "tweak the algorithm" so much as generate a load more training data of that one specific task to get it up to spec.

In any case, humans make mistakes on lots of stuff too, so if the criterion for "true" understanding is to make no mistakes then humans cannot be said to understand either.

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

As I said, my example wasn't the best one, but you're right that based on it humans can be judged badly too