Ask HN: Does AI just need to be useful?

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3 years ago

It's funny to me how so many AI / ML post discussions on news.ycombinator devolve into does it truely understand, isn't humans just a bunch of pattern matching machines, what does it mean to truly understand.

Then someone mentioned Qualia and we are off to the races... Someone counters with AI is what machines currently can't do..

I like the simple question of: is it useful? Like #chatgpt my brother in law uses it daily to actually solve coding problems and he works for google. Sister in law same for SAP. Not just syntax but solving business and technical problems described in English in code.

That is useful.

Just wait till a generation of finance people discover ChatGPT can generate excel macros for their business requirements they can just paste in.

Discussing this google music generation with a friend today: https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/ He is like it is only for background music not stuff you actually want to listen to. Background music is useful. If this can generate pop that is useful.

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