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Author here.

You’re right in that it’s obviously not the only problem.

But without solving this seems like no matter how good the models get it’ll never be enough.

Or, yes, the biggest research breakthrough we need is reliable calibrated confidence. And that’ll allow existing models as they are to become spectacularly more useful.



The biggest breakthrough that we need is something resembling actual intelligence in AI (human or machine, I’ll let you decide where we need it more ;) )


You might be getting downvoted because you editorialized your own title. If it’s obviously not the only thing then don’t add that to the title :)




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