[ExI] AI can create songs and write essays - Really?

[Darin Sunley]

It always amuses me that AI and robotics came out almost precisely the
opposite of how science fiction through the 70s depicted it.

Science fiction told us that human-level intelligence was pretty straight
forward, fluent speech synthesis was tricky but doable, and smooth bipedal
locomotion was very difficult, bordering on impossible.

In reality, things turned out precisely the opposite: we got fluent speech
synthesis first, smooth bipedal motion very shortly thereafter, and human
level intelligence last, and with enormous amounts of compute and effort.

You've pointed out something interesting - even within the subdomain of
purely abstract intelligence, things came out in the opposite order from
science fiction. Science fiction told us AIs would find math and logic easy
and natural, but artistic creative work difficult and borderline
incomprehensible. and of course, the opposite is the case - AIs find art
and creative work pretty straightforward, but have difficulty with
arithmetic and multi-step logical derivations.

Funny old world, innit?

On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 3:21 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Just saw this comment on the interwebs....
>
> "You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is?
> Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can
> do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can
> do my laundry and dishes".
> ---------------------
>
> How true.   There is much research ongoing into getting humanoid
> robots to do manual labour tasks in factories and homes.
> It is difficult, but progressing.
>
> But the difficulty is that when robots can do all the boring manual
> tasks, we will realise that all our fun hobbies can also be done much
> better by AI.      So what happens then?
>
> BillK
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