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user-inactivated  ·  3538 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AI Takes Historic Match Against Go Champ With Third Straight Win

Well, yes and no.

    My point was that the Jeopardy AI just help real medical student get a better diagnostic.

For now. Eventually the plan is for Winston or whatever it was called to be able to do the medical student's job with no oversight at about a thousand times the speed.

    Without human intervention, AlphaGo will never be able to learn to play Chess, or Magic the Gathering

Yeah. But -- correct me if I'm wrong -- the people who designed AlphaGo could not sit down and beat Lee at Go. AI will impact history in phases. We are at a phase where it can't do anything without human implementation. Most people think we will leave this phase behind soon.

So in one sense, calling something AI when it's just following instructions is misleading. But in another, if its instructions allow it to surpass its creators at its given function, what other word would you use?