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We are about to test the tests, so to speak, and discover whether an agent that aces a test is capable of doing "real work". Meaning information work you would
by javajosh 4y ago
We are about to test the tests, so to speak, and discover whether an agent that aces a test is capable of doing "real work". Meaning information work you would normally pay a human to do. Paperwork stuff, managing accounts, but also programming and social media marketing. Anything mediated by a computer.
If so it means the union of all human expertise is a few gigabytes. Having seen both a) what we can do in a kilobyte of code, and b) a broad range of human behavior, this doesn't seem impossible. The more interesting question is: what are humans going to do with this remarkable object, a svelte pocket brain, not quite alive, a capable coder in ALL languages, a shared human artifact that can ace all tests? "May you live in interesting times," indeed.