Serious question: why would we want to create artificial intelligence?
And I mean the actual meaning of the term, not "a bunch of algorithms in a trenchcoat" and *definitely* not LLM grifts, but something that you could plausibly consider a form of genuine sentient life.
Why is this even a goal worth chasing? What does anyone hope to actually achieve with this?
@joepie91
I like the idea of an "expert in a box". Package up a domain of knowledge and give it a conversational frontend.
An encyclopaedia (or white paper, rubber ducky, etc) i can query interactively, asking better questions to refine my own understanding.
The conversational frontend must know its limits and be able to respond "can't respond to that", which is one crucial failure of LLMs.
@silvermoon82 I feel like this elides the much more important question: why do we need this? Why aren't we instead building better (technical and social) structures for the experts we *already have* and who *already* want to help others, to provide that kind of assistance?
@joepie91
"Why do we need this" vs "why do we need to make this" are two very different and important questions.
I think humans have a certain drive to be tool makers; even if the tool is unnecessary or harmful, the act of making it satisfies something human.