Yep, but they may well still direct their focus at the wrong things.
See the above example of humans originally focussing on getting AI to beat them at chess, thinking that was going to be the hardest problem and pinnacle. It wasn’t, by a huge margin. It cost a lot of resources and time for what was a very doable problem from the start. And we didn’t gain as much from doing it as we may have gained from focussing on a different problem. Engineers may well end up obsessed with optimising results at particular tasks, while missing out on the fact that other tasks remain completely unaddressed and need more focus. Often, research on basic approaches is far more time consuming, because it is undirected, than research on how to improve an approach that already in principle works, but it becomes far more crucial and more of a bottleneck in the long run.
Yep, but they may well still direct their focus at the wrong things.
See the above example of humans originally focussing on getting AI to beat them at chess, thinking that was going to be the hardest problem and pinnacle. It wasn’t, by a huge margin. It cost a lot of resources and time for what was a very doable problem from the start. And we didn’t gain as much from doing it as we may have gained from focussing on a different problem. Engineers may well end up obsessed with optimising results at particular tasks, while missing out on the fact that other tasks remain completely unaddressed and need more focus. Often, research on basic approaches is far more time consuming, because it is undirected, than research on how to improve an approach that already in principle works, but it becomes far more crucial and more of a bottleneck in the long run.