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But how is that even possible? The best "AI" we have now are essentially just impressive exercises in data science, telling us in a surprisingly accurate ways things about the world that we already know.

Give it something completely strange, foreign and unknown, and it will acts orders of magnitude more irrational than the dumbest human.

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One of the best AIs of recent times is AlphaGo which works well with strange Go moves and invents moves humans haven't thought of. Of course it's a few more steps to deal with the real world rather than Go or Atari games.

It's a huge leap. AlphaGo used data to train itself well against a game with extremely clear rules and outputs.

So while impressive, it's an example again of specialized AI. Real life is not at all like this, nor is what Google achieved clear that it can be a roadmap to anything like General AI.

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