• TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      HAL was dreamt up after the first generation of AI reseacher made audacious claims that AGI was really close. For example, He Simon said “machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do.”

      The issue isn’t that we can or can’t do it, we aren’t even sure what it is or how to test for it yet.