Jennifer Golbeck about why Artificial Intelligence progress seems "stuck"

Artificial Intelligence is a good tool in many situations but it still have issue in other situations and it's far away from the sel aware computers like Skynet and Artificial general intelligence even after more than 20 years of development and even if recently, in the last 2 years, few topics in tech have garnered as much buzz and excitement as Artificial Intelligence or generative artificial intelligence. The global release of ChatGPT in 2022 marked a significant breakthrough, but progress has slowed significantly since then. Early promises of more, faster or even "exponential" progress have given way to more incremental improvements.

In the TEDxTalkx video the computer scientist and Artificial Intelligence researcher Jennifer Golbeck explains why this plateau has occurred, offers explanations for current issues like "hallucinations", and offers some fresh ideas about what it may take to get past this technological inflection point. Dr. Jennifer Golbeck is a professor at the University of Maryland in College Park. She is an expert in social networks, social media, privacy and is a sought after speaker, expert, and science communicator.

She began studying social media from the moment it emerged on the web a decade ago and is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field, and her research has influenced industry, government, and the military.