“Schmidt's assessment back then was that artificial intelligence research faced tremendous obstacles that inhibited its progress. He "didn't think it would scale," he said of the machine learning tech.
And he said he also didn't think it would "generalize," meaning becoming more flexible and elastic, like the human mind, rather than remaining a specialized tool suited only to specific tasks.
Schmidt had underestimated the power of simple algorithms to "emulate very complex things," he said, while qualifying that "we're still in the baby stages of doing conceptual learning."”
Google's Eric Schmidt: 'I Was Proven Completely Wrong' About Artificial Intelligence
http://fortune.com/2017/02/15/eric-schmidt-rsa-artificial-intelligence/
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And he said he also didn't think it would "generalize," meaning becoming more flexible and elastic, like the human mind, rather than remaining a specialized tool suited only to specific tasks.
Schmidt had underestimated the power of simple algorithms to "emulate very complex things," he said, while qualifying that "we're still in the baby stages of doing conceptual learning."”
Google's Eric Schmidt: 'I Was Proven Completely Wrong' About Artificial Intelligence
http://fortune.com/2017/02/15/eric-schmidt-rsa-artificial-intelligence/
via Instapaper
