I think there’s negativity because it gets hyped too much.
We were supposed to have self driving cars all over the roads 2 years ago. We still don’t have anything close but now people are all “How is the way AI works any different from the way the brain works. Looks the same in my non-expert opinion!”.
I think there’s negativity because it gets hyped too much.
You only can recognize the true revolutions in hindsight. I remember well the people who said the Internet was overhyped and it's just a novelty that will go away. In hindsight it was not hyped enough. My personal opinion is that what we see in AI is more like the early Internet than the hype about self-driving cars.
What I see more of an issue is that some people expect AI to solve all their problems and when they are disappointed they overlook that it solves some problems better than anything we had before.
This is true. I think it was hard to reason about how important the internet would be because it was expensive to get on and it needed Google to make discovery exponentially better. It took a long time for access to become cheap enough to be almost ubiquitous in a developed country.
ML, AI, whatever, is clearly usable now. But it has limits. And I think it's clear that it's not fully baked relative to the promises. We certainly don't have a Killer App yet.
What we have isn't good enough, and I say that at someone who in 2009 expected cars that didn't have or need steering wheels to be purchasable by normal people in 2019[0], but the tech does exist and can drive you around.
(And derive you around, as autocorrupt decided to inject a suitably ironic twist that I almost didn't spot).
> but now people are all “How is the way AI works any different from the way the brain works. Looks the same in my non-expert opinion!”.
In general: yes, totally. (Though I've only heard that specifically being used for "why stable diffusion is no worse than art school WRT copyright issues").
Always the way, though: "Consciousness is mysterious, quantum mechanics is mysterious, therefore they are the same thing".
We were supposed to have self driving cars all over the roads 2 years ago. We still don’t have anything close but now people are all “How is the way AI works any different from the way the brain works. Looks the same in my non-expert opinion!”.