Almost nobody in A.I. these days seems to aim for what Alan Turing himself envisioned — a flexible, general-purpose intelligence of the sort that human beings have, which allows any ordinary individual to master a vast range of tasks, from tying his shoes to holding conversations and mastering tenth-grade biology.
Forget the hypothetical emergence of general purpose artificial intelligence, at least for a moment: we're handing over more and more of what happens in our world, today, to the speed and efficiency of unthinking deciders.
In particular, he thinks that people are too scared about general purpose artificial intelligence.
Instead of trying to solve the grand problems of general purpose artificial intelligence, Siri focuses on a few important vertical domains, for example: restaurants, movies, events, local business, weather, and services and data on the Web that relate to them.
And then, one suspects, the "general purpose" phase of machine-intelligence-driven productivity will commence, partly as the tech companies themselves eat more of the economy, and partly as their applications are sold to or used by firms in other parts of the economy.But this strikes me as a hugely important development.
The goal in this paper is to develop a general purpose (non-disease-specific) computational/artificial intelligence (AI) framework to address these challenges.
Microsoft has created a new research lab with a focus on developing general-purpose artificial intelligence technology, the company revealed today.
It has a general purpose.
What does "general purpose" mean here?
Anchorage, $94 million of general obligation general purpose bonds.
Problem-solving methods divide into special purpose and general purpose.
