The New Illusionists
Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of artificial intelligence research company DeepMind, has left Google to join venture capital firm Greylock Partners. In a recent interview he made the statement: “We now have AI systems that can generate new text, conversational sentences and whole paragraphs, which is approaching human-level performance.” Human-level performance at what? It is time for clarity about the difference between comprehending language and creating the illusion of comprehension.