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Why are people obsessed with AGI? I agree that it’s an exciting scientific challenge, but I don’t think it’ll solve all of our problems. Additionally, I’m not
by bezout 6y ago
Why are people obsessed with AGI? I agree that it’s an exciting scientific challenge, but I don’t think it’ll solve all of our problems.
Additionally, I’m not sure we must necessarily strive for machines that think like humans. It could be useful for some use cases but I would argue that you can still take advantage of purely data-driven models.
- bostonpete 6y agoIsn't the main attraction of AGI to enable systems to reason about and deal with out-of-domain situations? Can you get there with a purely data-driven approach?
- bezout 6y agoNo, I think that data-driven approaches have limitations. And, yes, the main attraction of AGI is (human) reasoning. The fact is: do we think that human reasoning is enough? Do we think that using machines to scale human reasoning is enough?
- wombatmobile 6y agoHuman reasoning is always contextualised by the humans assets - wealth, beauty, status, ideology, character, temperament, location, affiliations.