People are Smart
- My main collaborator is, of course, Melanie.
- Almost all people, even children, can do a host of
things that computers can not currently do.
- People are generalists.
- We can learn new things, and do.
- We've evolved to solve a bunch of problems that other
people need to be solved.
- As a simple example, people are really good at natural
language, like English (vs. a formal language like Java).
- Almost everyone speaks well.
- No computer comes even close.
- For that matter, no other animal comes close.
- In the 50s, the AI folks thought they'd solved machine
translation (Russian to English and back).
- They then translated a document to Russian and back;
- The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Becomes
The vodka is good but the meat is rotten.
