To me, the fact that Turing wrote the first chess program in the 1950s suggests that people thought computers were capable of playing chess. It doesn't seem too great a leap to imagine that they'd be open to the idea that a supercomputer could play superhuman chess.
That's how long we've come. Playing chess. On a superhuman level. Wow. What is superhuman anyways?
The same goes for writing text articles. Go on any /r/politics thread you'll surely see bots writing text that does a good job of convincing people that it was human written. So slightly, or even significantly, improving those is not something that people doubted would be possible.
It's not AI imo. It's a trained model that will never be able to evolve outside those tight boundaries.
And that is because, which is really simple, we don't really have any clue of how the brain works, technically. And besides that, the impact which environments has on the brain.
Why no one is talking about this being a huge driver for Microsoft Azure and what Microsoft as a company will gain from this, baffles me a little. Not sure i like it.
Many, many human-level benchmarks on narrow AI tasks have been passed in recent years. https://www.eff.org/ai/metrics
So, the “well that’s not intelligence, it’s just computation” arguments can continue until it reaches “well that system isn’t conscious, so it’s not AI”. That argument holds no water, since intelligence != consciousness.
