I agree that people have gotten vibes from the paper which have been somewhat discredited.
Yet I don’t see how that vibe followed from what he wrote. He tried to clarify that having systems with specialized goals does not imply they have only narrow knowledge. See section 21 of the CAIS paper (“Broad world knowledge can support safe task performance”).
Are people collapsing “AI with narrow goals” and “AI with only specialized knowledge” into one concept “narrow AI”?
What is the vibe you’re interpreting me as stating? I didn’t mean that Drexler said that “systems with specialized goals will have only narrow knowledge”. What I wrote was that I interpreted the CAIS world as one where we’d train a model from scratch for each task. The update that I’m pointing out is that the costs of automating tasks can be massively parallelized across tasks, not that AIs will have broad knowledge of the world.
Oops, you’re right. Section 36.6 does advocate modularity, in a way that hints at the vibe you describe. And my review of the CAIS paper did say things about modularity that seem less likely now than they did 4 years ago.
I agree that people have gotten vibes from the paper which have been somewhat discredited.
Yet I don’t see how that vibe followed from what he wrote. He tried to clarify that having systems with specialized goals does not imply they have only narrow knowledge. See section 21 of the CAIS paper (“Broad world knowledge can support safe task performance”).
Are people collapsing “AI with narrow goals” and “AI with only specialized knowledge” into one concept “narrow AI”?
What is the vibe you’re interpreting me as stating? I didn’t mean that Drexler said that “systems with specialized goals will have only narrow knowledge”. What I wrote was that I interpreted the CAIS world as one where we’d train a model from scratch for each task. The update that I’m pointing out is that the costs of automating tasks can be massively parallelized across tasks, not that AIs will have broad knowledge of the world.
Oops, you’re right. Section 36.6 does advocate modularity, in a way that hints at the vibe you describe. And my review of the CAIS paper did say things about modularity that seem less likely now than they did 4 years ago.