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Any sufficiently advanced tech is not indistinguishable from AGI. The original term, magic, really is more appropriate. The ability to factor any number quick
by kenjackson 4y ago
Any sufficiently advanced tech is not indistinguishable from AGI. The original term, magic, really is more appropriate. The ability to factor any number quickly doesn't look like AGI, but can seem like magic.
And AGI is also not "mimics how the brain works". The original Turing Test was good because it really sat at the heart of the issue. Does the computer behave like a human during an interaction? At the end of the day we know very little about what makes us human (from a behviorial perspective), but we know it when we see it.
The question of AGI was never really an issue until ChatGPT. Asking an AI a question like, "Was Steve Jobs more or less effective as a manager than Bill Gates, just from a people manager perspective?" was moot as we had no technology that could really even parse that question, much less put together a coherent answer. Now our main gripe is that the AI answer to this question is more verbose and provides more context than what most humans would give.
- throwway120385 4y agoThe real problem is also that we have no way of knowing whether the ChatGPT answer is based on factual information. It is very skilled at inventing convincing facts from whole cloth.
- kenjackson 4y agoThat is a problem with ChatGPT, but it has nothing to do with it being AGI or not. Politicians do this so regularly that we have websites like FactCheck. The question is can you tell that this is a computer making these facts up or do you think it is a human making up the facts.
- slowmovintarget 4y agoPoliticians, generally speaking, know when they're making things up. ChatGPT and LLMs in general have no state evaluation on the text they've produced indicating its proximity to the truth. This has everything to do with ChatGPT not being AGI.
- kenjackson 4y agoYou are purely speculating about what a politician knows. I honestly don't even know what I know about me. I have some thoughts, but I'm not sure if those are just side effects of me processing or trying to maximize some function in my brain. By your definition -- maybe we don't have (A)GI either.