What happens when AI is let out of our boxes?

Another AI winter avoided

I wrote about the risk of having a rigid, paranoid tech philosophy and the risks of micro-managing our intelligent software. When AI can’t experiment, it fails to meet our expectations and the obscene amount of hype this time around. When complex systems (like crypto) can’t adapt, they fail.

There will be another AI winter unless we pull back our expectations (hard to do this late in the hype cycle) — or swallow our pride and fear, and let AI out of our box.

Source: Quora thread on AI hype and winters

Are we heading for another AI winter?

Our Boxes

AI is confined to our perception of language. We limit its thinking to either vast layers of binaries (which we end up having to code and recode) or a narrow set of polite human communications. This is not where the greatest breakthroughs happen. The genius — the intelligence — is in the nuance and the unknown.

I would love to be creeped out after realizing a witty, novel idea or response came from an AI instead of a human. It would force me to rethink my own role in human society.