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I can't rhyme in French either. A lot of these comments just remind me of that Alan Kay quote: “Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet.” I

I can't rhyme in French either. A lot of these comments just remind me of that Alan Kay quote: “Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet.” In the past year we've got models that can draw, write poetry and code better than a significant percentage of people, and now the goal posts are moving so fast they're even hard to see. I'd probably agree that we're still a few breakthroughs away from something that could pass as AGI, but the current models are already better than just "parroting". And even if progress stales for the next 10 or 15 years like it has happened frequently with AI, everything that it has learned to do in the last couple years can be fine-tuned and made a lot more efficient, which I expect will have a big impact already.

lm28469 4y ago
I have a really really really hard time thinking we're even remotely close to AGI when I see stuff like: https://imgur.com/eukW66W https://imgur.com/eukW66W You must have a really convoluted definition of AGI to come to the conclusion gpt is AGI when it proves times and times again it quite literally have no understanding of what it writes
- sharemywin 4y ago
  see it's already passed the Turing test: https://sports.yahoo.com/24-most-hilariously-bad-spelling-191602032.html https://sports.yahoo.com/24-most-hilariously-bad-spelling-19...
- dandellion 4y ago
  I said that "I think we are a few breakthroughs away from something could pass as AGI". That means, first, that I don't think we're there and so I don't consider chatgpt AGI, and second that even something that "passes" as AGI at first glance might not necessarily be so under close inspection. But at the same time, I won't call what chatgpt is doing parroting. It's not just repeating input data as-is, at least it's capable of applying some transformations on that data. Most of the time the transformation is useful, occasionally it's pretty borked. Parroting to me would be just repeating the training data without much transformation. > it quite literally have no understanding of what it writes Even though I DON'T think gpt AGI, I don't consider that a deciding factor. Humans can also show no understanding of what we write or read, and I consider us "GI".

lm28469 4y ago

I have a really really really hard time thinking we're even remotely close to AGI when I see stuff like: https://imgur.com/eukW66W https://imgur.com/eukW66W You must have a really convoluted definition of AGI to come to the conclusion gpt is AGI when it proves times and times again it quite literally have no understanding of what it writes

sharemywin 4y ago
see it's already passed the Turing test: https://sports.yahoo.com/24-most-hilariously-bad-spelling-191602032.html https://sports.yahoo.com/24-most-hilariously-bad-spelling-19...
dandellion 4y ago
I said that "I think we are a few breakthroughs away from something could pass as AGI". That means, first, that I don't think we're there and so I don't consider chatgpt AGI, and second that even something that "passes" as AGI at first glance might not necessarily be so under close inspection. But at the same time, I won't call what chatgpt is doing parroting. It's not just repeating input data as-is, at least it's capable of applying some transformations on that data. Most of the time the transformation is useful, occasionally it's pretty borked. Parroting to me would be just repeating the training data without much transformation. > it quite literally have no understanding of what it writes Even though I DON'T think gpt AGI, I don't consider that a deciding factor. Humans can also show no understanding of what we write or read, and I consider us "GI".