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AI Go bots not so superhuman after all (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 5 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] self@awful.systems 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

FAR AI tries to imply that the Go bots are still not merely superhuman, but far superhuman: “this result demonstrates that even far superhuman AI systems can fail catastrophically in surprising ways.” Uh huh. [FAR AI]

fuck it’s so disappointing that everything in this space has to be communicated through the cracked lens of critihype — that even the utterly normal failings of a misengineered system must be misrepresented, in true techfash style, as further proof that the system is powerful and is only one more breakthrough away from perfection

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

Anyone working deep in this kind of tech is basically doing a dream job. Despite heavy stress, you get to push the boundaries of your field and work with exciting new tech, and you get paid so well too! ... Until the money stops, which it will at any moment when the investors get scared. So, without really even trying to you become dishonest, you start to stretch truth a little, get a little too optimistic in your estimates. "No no please, just one more year of funding, 6 months, and we'll have world changing results" and then you just need to get an impressive demo together and try to keep kicking that can down the road.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

yeah this is much more a story about critihype than Go