Clicked on the demo "What caused the fall of the Roman Empire?" and immediately saw the same inadequacies I've seen in every other system like this: any attempt at visualizing a point ends up being absolute nonsense. Graphics and charts that confuse more than help, or even contradict what is being said.
It ends up being a hurdle I don't think these services can surpass, given these systems understand nothing, and have no spatial reasoning. Any of these systems that claim to help explain things visually end up being a huge liability for the learner and I would never recommend them to someone.
They understand a heck of a lot more than they did. We’ve gone from “understands how to form a coherent sentence, mostly” to “understands enough about the world to generate a 20 minute infotainment video that you wouldn’t pick as AI unless you’re looking for the current tells” in, what, 5 years?
It’s worth pondering what the world would be like if current AI methods don’t hit a glass ceiling, and get to the point where they can legitimately produce better, more creative, higher ‘nutritional value’ output than humans can. How do we spend our lives?
totallygeeky · · focus · HN ↗
It ends up being a hurdle I don't think these services can surpass, given these systems understand nothing, and have no spatial reasoning. Any of these systems that claim to help explain things visually end up being a huge liability for the learner and I would never recommend them to someone.
taneq · · focus · HN ↗
It’s worth pondering what the world would be like if current AI methods don’t hit a glass ceiling, and get to the point where they can legitimately produce better, more creative, higher ‘nutritional value’ output than humans can. How do we spend our lives?