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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

For me the biggest indicator that we've barking up the wrong tree is energy consumption.

Consider the energy required to feed a human with that required to train and run the current "leading edge" systems.

From a software development perspective, I think machine learning is a very useful way to model unknown variables, but that's not the same as "intelligence".