1/🧵 A month or two ago, I was summoned to the Microsoft HQ here in Prague for a conference on AI. A bit of bragging about the generative spoken language models and so on. Above-average catering and a bunch of sales hawks perching for prey.
1/🧵 A month or two ago, I was summoned to the Microsoft HQ here in Prague for a conference on AI. A bit of bragging about the generative spoken language models and so on. Above-average catering and a bunch of sales hawks perching for prey.
2/🧵 It’s a rough game since all the start-ups they represent offer the same service built on the same technology backed by Azure Cloud. I bet nobody there had ever heard of CrowdStrike back then, but that’s another story.
3/🧵 The current AI is advanced enough to replace the workforce even in a niche Slavic language with some 11 million native speakers, flexible word order, and more irregularities than grammar rules. Moreover, it already makes business sense to localize the AI - so much for its scalability.
4/🧵 Would this AI pass the Turing Test? Likely so. It can read and describe a picture, shows certain levels of creativity, is usually coherent, remembers previous conversations, and adheres to recommendations and suggestions it received. Pretty much like a human, even though it does not actually think.
5/🧵 And here’s where it becomes tricky. Would every person pass the Turing Test when facing an advanced AI model? Can genuine stupidity stand the challenge? I’ve had several sad conversations with people who could fail – I guess everyone has.
Read more in my most recent post: https://inleo.io/@godfish/would-you-pass-the-turing-test-9uj
Love these post exposing russian troll account, people having loads of fun with them :)
Seems I should have picked another image for this threadstorm. Thanks for the feedback :)
oh now seems like autocorrect strike again. Was suppose to say Love* 😅