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All of this AGI risk stuff always hinges on the idea of us building an AGI, while nobody has any idea of how to get there. I need to finish my PhD first, but wr
by igorkraw 4y ago
All of this AGI risk stuff always hinges on the idea of us building an AGI, while nobody has any idea of how to get there. I need to finish my PhD first, but writing a proper takedown of the "arguments" bubbling out of the Hype machine is the first thing on my bucket list afterwards, with the TL;DR; being "just because you can imagine it, doesn't mean you can get there"
- Tenoke 4y agoAre you rephrasing the arguments against man-made flight machines from the early 20th century on purpose or accidentally?
- zarzavat 4y agoGoogle just released a paper that shows a language model beating the average human on >50% of tasks. I’d say we have a pretty good idea of how to get there.
- igorkraw 4y agoOkay, so how do we go from "better than the average human in 50% of specific benchmarks" to "AGI that might lead to human extinction" then? Keeping in mind the logarithmic improvement observed with the current approaches