Interview with Facebook's Head of AI

https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-ai-says-field-hit-wall/

by hongzi • 7 years ago

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ummonk• 7 years ago

Very clickbaity headline. The full quote in the interview makes it obvious he is talking about hitting a wall in terms of simply throwing more compute power (at greater expense) at projects to get better results. He doesn’t imply anything about algorithmic improvements in AI hitting a wall.

dang• 7 years ago

Ok, we'll just make the title say that it's an interview, which it is.

choppaface• 7 years ago

And things like Cerebras should change the compute landscape quite a bit.

Veedrac3• 7 years ago

JP: “As a lab, our objective is to match human intelligence.”

Also JP: AGI is a “bogus concept”.

??? How can you possibly square these comments?

Stanleyc23• 7 years ago

perhaps paid to do the former but believes in the latter?

contextfree• 7 years ago

He explains in the next paragraph? He doesn't consider human intelligence to be general.

The_rationalist• 7 years ago

Which is an extraordinary statement which he doesn't explain. Sad as it would have been more useful than this whole interview where he only say obvious things.

Veedrac3• 7 years ago

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that can understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can.

That's what the term means.

Anyway, this idea that human intelligence is ‘not general’ is incredibly short-sighted coming from someone in such a post.

I'm mashing a bunch of pieces of carefully-refined material to convey a bunch of squiggles to convince people I've never met a point about a person I've never met. This sort of unstructured problem-solving is exactly what generality is.

unityByFreedom2• 7 years ago

Interesting, I thought Yann was still the head of AI at Facebook. Did they just need someone who would tell them that achieving human-level intelligence is coming soon?

xixixao• 7 years ago

I think your question implies something that is clearly invalidated by the interview:

JP: As a lab, our objective is to match human intelligence. We're still very, very far from that, but we think it’s a great objective.

unityByFreedom2• 7 years ago

Yann is unlikely to say it's a great objective.

Interview with Facebook's Head of AI

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