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bananaflagtoday at 9:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Always has been, and if you paid attention in CS class, you know the limits of those things.

I don't remember ever learning a theorem stating that computers cannot surpass humans.


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georgehotztoday at 10:26 AM

Haha that's not what the post (or the post it links to) says. Every CS student should know there's no free lunch in search and optimization. There's tradeoffs between random search, evolutionary algorithms, and convex optimization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_in_search_and_op...

There's an AI "smell" to things that are generated. Why is that? Mode collapse is impossible to see from a small number of samples. Are we mode collapsing society? How would we know if we were?

Also, will computers surpass humans has such an implicit bias in it. Have humans surpassed ants? Have ants surpassed rocks? Have jet planes surpassed teletubbies?

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Hadarai5today at 10:36 AM

I remember P vs NP