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Why AI is Harder Than We Think — mentioned by degamad

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:31:54 GMT

I think this might be the paper being referenced: Melanie Mitchell (2021) "Why AI is Harder Than We Think." https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12871 That sentence is not from this paper.

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Why AI is Harder Than We Think — mentioned by Kikobeats

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:49:40 GMT

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Why AI is Harder Than We Think — HN submission

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 07:11:19 GMT

Why AI Is Harder Than We Think (2021) [pdf]

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Why AI is Harder Than We Think — HN submission

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 18:13:24 GMT

Why AI Is Harder Than We Think (2021)

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Why AI is Harder Than We Think — mentioned by swyx

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 10:13:26 GMT

this is a wonderful race: as the machines become more human, the humans are forced to introspect and double down on what it means to be human. One could almost call it the human race. (ba dum tss) I've had my own problems with proving my own humanity[0]. With this AI wave, I also took a stab at enumerating what machines/AI can't do: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/agi-hard - Empathy and Theory of Mind (building up an accurate mental model of conversational participants, what they know and how they react) - Understand the meaning of art rather than the content of art - Physics and Conceptual…

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Why AI is Harder Than We Think — mentioned by Jiocus

Tue, 04 May 2021 16:38:58 GMT

This article seems to be a rehash of the paper ‘Why AI is harder than we think’[1]. [1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12871.pdf - Related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26964819

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Why AI is Harder Than We Think — mentioned by RuffleGordon

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:04:08 GMT

There was also a good discussion on HN [0] about a new paper by Melanie Mitchell "Why AI is Harder Than We Think" [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26964819 [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12871

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Why AI is Harder Than We Think — mentioned by juliangamble

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 06:52:05 GMT

Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12871.pdf TLDR: Fallacy 1: Narrow intelligence is on a continuum with general intelligence (solving an easy AI problem doesn't immediately lead to being able to solve a hard AI problem) Fallacy 2: Easy things are easy and hard things are hard (ie AI is hard) Fallacy 3: The lure of wishful mnemonics (ie people tend to give parts of a computer program anthropomorphic labels, eg "understand" that don't really) Fallacy 4: Intelligence is all in the brain (our thoughts are grounded, or inextricably associated with, perception, action, and emotion, and that…

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Why AI is Harder Than We Think — HN submission

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 02:34:45 GMT

Why AI is harder than we think

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