On: Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane

[grewsome]

Sometimes the last 10% takes 90% of the time. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out, and whether it will eventually get to something that could be considered a solved problem.

I'm not so sure they'll get there. If the solved problem is defined as a sub-standard but low cost, then I wouldn't bet against that. A solution better than that though, I don't think I'd put my money on that.

[disqard → grewsome]

You just inspired a thought:

What if the goalpost is shifted backwards, to the 90% mark (instead of demanding that AI get to 100%)?

* Big corps could redefine "good enough" as "what the SotA AI can do" and call it good.

* They could then layoff even more employees, since the AI would be, by definition, Good Enough.

(This isn't too far-fetched, IMO, seeing how we're seeing calls for copyright violation to be classified as legal-when-we-do-it)