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We don't know that intelligence requires any of those characteristics, seems most likely it doesn't.
by jabradoodle 3y ago
We don't know that intelligence requires any of those characteristics, seems most likely it doesn't.
- ilaksh 3y agoThis thread demonstrates the central problem with these discussions which is that everyone has their own definition of AGI. GPT-4 clearly has a type of fairly general purpose intelligence. But there is more than one type of cognitive ability, some which LLMs can't have. The other person seems to consider AGI to mean something like "living digital person" or whatever.
- IshKebab 3y agoNope. AGI has a fairly well accepted definition - something with human level cognition. The ability to replace humans for most tasks. Bringing up things like sentience and consciousness muddies the waters because nobody knows those even are. HN is full of confident and unfounded assertions that ANNs fundamentally can't be conscious. Or even that they can't reason!
- ilaksh 3y agoWell, I agree that there is a reasonable and more correct definition of AGI something like you say, but unfortunately the term is not being used with that connotation consistently. The majority of people use it in a very fuzzy way, often incorporating ideas like consciousness. But also even in your statement, the word "level" is problematic. Because there is more than one dimension to the cognition. See Yann LeCun's recent criticisms, many of which are correct. Yet it's clear that LLMs have their own type of often useful and fairly general reasoning.