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Is anyone even trying to develop an AGI by the way? I mean a language model is neat, may even pick up some emergent features, but in the end it has no real iden
by contravariant 4y ago
Is anyone even trying to develop an AGI by the way? I mean a language model is neat, may even pick up some emergent features, but in the end it has no real identity. It's basically a memoryless computer doing improv where it tries to pick continue a conversation someone else had.
- brucethemoose2 4y agoMaybe not a "real" AGI, but a system that could adequately impersonate an AGI with improv and self training seems quite practical in the near future. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
- MacsHeadroom 4y agoHumans are my favorite kind of philosophical zombie. Not a single one has ever given a sound argument that they are anything else.
- quonn 4y agoSo where is the subjective perspective of looking into the world coming from? „It emerges“ is doing a lot work and explains nothing.
- MacsHeadroom 4y agoWhat subjective perspective? Show it to me. Silly pzombie, you can't fool me!
- versteegen 4y agoIt used to be that only a few academics were actually working on AGI, and even they had to pretend they were working on narrow AI to get funding. But now, plenty of big labs are. For example, DeepMind's About page states: > Our long term aim is to solve intelligence, developing more general and capable problem-solving systems, known as artificial general intelligence (AGI). In the long term, I still think DeepMind will get there before OpenAI, due to the direction of their research program, which has always been about embodied agents. I have heard Shane Legg say that embodiment is probably necessary for AGI.
- robwwilliams 4y agoAgreed. DeepMind and Hassabis are on the right track—-a society of modules with many layers of recursive self attentional gating. LMM is one big part though.