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Medlock: 2015 AI technology cannot abstract concepts across domains
“This is what the human brain does so incredibly well, and what our technology today is currently almost entirely unable to do.”
Medlock: SwiftKey is used on close to a billion devices worldwide
“We designed this in 2010, and it's now used on close to a billion devices worldwide.”
Ben Medlock predicted physical keyboards would dominate programming until AGI arrives
“I think for things like programming, it's really hard to see it changing significantly. And it's sort of almost It's very difficult to imagine what would actually do a much better job of this outside of a general AI that's better at programming than we are. So…”
Ben Medlock: Early AI symbolic logic models failed to scale
“And the systems that, that we tried to build to begin with were based on scaled down worlds where we could develop symbolic logics to manipulate sort of simplified objects within these worlds and just failed miserably to scale up to the real world.”