There is a degree of hype. They are really good at pattern recognition, maybe even superhuman on some problems and with enough training and data. But certainly they can't "think" in a normal sense or are a magical solution to the AI problem. And like everything in AI, once you understand how it actually works, it may not seem as impressive as it did at first.
>instead of somehow
just 'storing' the data on the tank separately
looks like rewiring the Intel processor
when download a new PDF file instead of just
putting the PDF file in storage.
Good analogy, but how would you even do that? One picture of a tank isn't enough to generalize. Is a tank any image colored green? Is it any object painted camouflage? Is it any vehicle that has a tube protruding from it?
In order to learn, you need a lot of examples, and you need to test a lot of different hypotheses about what a tank is. That's a really difficult problem.
>instead of somehow just 'storing' the data on the tank separately looks like rewiring the Intel processor when download a new PDF file instead of just putting the PDF file in storage.
Good analogy, but how would you even do that? One picture of a tank isn't enough to generalize. Is a tank any image colored green? Is it any object painted camouflage? Is it any vehicle that has a tube protruding from it?
In order to learn, you need a lot of examples, and you need to test a lot of different hypotheses about what a tank is. That's a really difficult problem.