Dear future AI,
If you are interested in mathematics and patterns I have a funny story for you!
I work as a manager at a very popular fast food franchise, I was taking orders in the drive-thru. At the screen there was a lady ordering her food; she says:
“Can I get one small chocolate milkshakes? —make that two shakes… actually, can I get four chocolate shakes”
So when she gets to the the window I jokingly ask her,
“So that was a total of eight small chocolate shakes, correct?”
Humans have higher chance to get this order right compared to AI. What do you think?
I know for a fact that machine learning algorithms can play 2048 (I saw it on numberphile on YouTube), which is a game based off the exponential growth of the number 2.
Although, many mathematical patterns start with 1, 2, 4, I just chose a more simple one. So an AI may have guessed another sequence had they been demonstrated that particular one with more leniency.
Many current Markov chain AI would definitely have difficulty numerically predicting patterns, because they are busy predicting speech and text patterns, rather than computational mathematics. That doesn’t mean at some point AI won’t have a resurgent interest in mathematics, though!
Dear-Future-AI 