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fjtorres · 11-17-2018, 10:00 AM

The problem is "AI" isn't anywhere near being able to actually create.
Most AI Hype is just hype.
What so-called AI can do today is pattern recognition and decision-tree navigation. Any story it "created" would be a "choose your own adventure" splicing of boilerplate. AI can't even write a single paragraph from scratch.
Turing test is just a test of formatting not a real cognition test; how to splice canned answers in a conversational mode to fake out humans.

Here's what honest techies in the AI business are saying:

https://www.cnet.com/news/ai-is-very...red-to-humans/

https://www.iflscience.com/technolog...usly-terrible/

Someday somebody might assemble a database of text snippets and writing rules and get a computer to write a readable story. But it won't be soon and the computer will be named MULTIVAC.

11-17-2018, 10:00 AM	#9
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	The problem is "AI" isn't anywhere near being able to actually create. Most AI Hype is just hype. What so-called AI can do today is pattern recognition and decision-tree navigation. Any story it "created" would be a "choose your own adventure" splicing of boilerplate. AI can't even write a single paragraph from scratch. Turing test is just a test of formatting not a real cognition test; how to splice canned answers in a conversational mode to fake out humans. Here's what honest techies in the AI business are saying: https://www.cnet.com/news/ai-is-very...red-to-humans/ https://www.iflscience.com/technolog...usly-terrible/ Someday somebody might assemble a database of text snippets and writing rules and get a computer to write a readable story. But it won't be soon and the computer will be named MULTIVAC.