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posted by martyb on Sunday December 15 2019, @01:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'll-think-about-it dept.

A sobering message about the future at AI's biggest party

Blaise Aguera y Arcas praised the revolutionary technique known as deep learning that has seen teams like his get phones to recognize faces and voices. He also lamented the limitations of that technology, which involves designing software called artificial neural networks that can get better at a specific task by experience or seeing labeled examples of correct answers.

"We're kind of like the dog who caught the car," Aguera y Arcas said. Deep learning has rapidly knocked down some longstanding challenges in AI—but doesn't immediately seem well suited to many that remain. Problems that involve reasoning or social intelligence, such as weighing up a potential hire in the way a human would, are still out of reach, he said. "All of the models that we have learned how to train are about passing a test or winning a game with a score [but] so many things that intelligences do aren't covered by that rubric at all," he said.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 15 2019, @09:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 15 2019, @09:44PM (#932486)

    Having hired and interviewed countless people in tech, I'm actually a big believer of psychometric tests over tech tests and/or face-to-face interview. It tells me so much more about how the propeller head is wired inside which is a lot more valuable then any tech exam results or interview. Even face-to-face soft question interviews don't cut it as a smart enough cookie can easily say what you want to hear.

    A psychometric exam on the other hand asks the same questions 10 different ways and deducts the person's psychological makeup. I've ignored psych results in the pass to only learn the hard way that I shouldn't.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday December 16 2019, @02:01AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday December 16 2019, @02:01AM (#932631)

    It tells me so much more about how the propeller head is wired inside

    Actually, it tells you about how the propeller head fills out a psychometric test. By age 12, any decent propeller head is intelligent and insightful enough to ask (and answer) "what are they looking for with this?"

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