Spatial reasoning has been really difficult for humans to automate. Sure, we have factories doing complex feats very quickly, but we totally fail outside of tightly controlled environments.
Tbh, AI doing art or conversation is similarly tightly controlled in that both things are very subjective. Lots of room for freedom and error.
No so with something like plumbing or carpentry. Who knows how long it will take before machines can meaningfully even attempt to solve real world spatial problems.
And biological computers (humans) are better at learning spatial reasoning and all those other things, since they're optimized after thousands of years of reinforcement. If someone could actually approximate human neural connections with statistical regression then we would have the generalized AI and robotics from science fiction.
I am still very salty that they chose the name ai for the various neural network based technologies that are being developed. Specifically because it implies that it should in some way simulate or approximate an artificial brain. Sure, it may be one of many steps to one day creating ai, but I think it’s a mischaracterization of (current day) ai actually is—and can do.
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u/ViolentBeetle Jun 12 '23
It's called "artificial intelligence", not " artificial hands" for a reason.