Mark Ring

5 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 28, 2017 by Mark Ring · across every show →

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Jul 28, 2017 bullish
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Ring: Technical hurdles in AI forecast mechanisms will be solved within years
“These are all relatively soluble problems, and nothing would lead me to believe that they can't be solved within the next few years given sufficient focus and effort.”
Mark Ring Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 21:57 Mark Ring
Jul 28, 2017 positive
Insight
Ring: True robot knowledge stems from experience, not pre-programmed labels
“There, these aren't just arbitrary labels or categories that are programmers assigned to a node in a graph. This is verifiable knowledge based on experience in the real world.”
Mark Ring Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 17:54 Mark Ring
Jul 28, 2017 negative
Opinion
Mark Ring: A lot of modern AI is just a sophisticated party trick
“To a large extent, I think, ah, a lot of AI today is really a computationally sophisticated party trick.”
Mark Ring Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 0:25 Mark Ring
Jul 28, 2017
Insight
Mark Ring: Predictive forecasts can build endlessly abstract AI representations
“Distance maps to doorways, hallways, rooms of different shapes and sizes, and in principle, any distinctive set of forecasts can be predicted, and those predictions can be used to build ever more abstract forecasts continuing indefinitely.”
Mark Ring Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 19:28 Mark Ring
Jul 28, 2017 positive
Opinion
Ring: Continual forecast chains show first glimpse of true AI understanding
“So I think that what we're seeing here is a first glimpse of true computer understanding of the world around us in the way that, that humans have it.”
Mark Ring Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 17:41 Mark Ring
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