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In biological systems, autonomy is required as a means of survival. AI systems do not have this concept yet, so the only way to have AGI, if we accept your defi
by supriyo-biswas 3y ago
In biological systems, autonomy is required as a means of survival. AI systems do not have this concept yet, so the only way to have AGI, if we accept your definition is to set up an agent with goals to stay alive and reproduce, which isn’t really applicable to LLMs which do show some level of general intelligence even though it’s very different from the human experience, and single-modal.
- sanderjd 3y agoYeah I mean this inevitably gets philosophical quickly... What I'm saying I'm looking for is the behavior of figuring out what to do next, where the choices are neither arbitrary or directionless nor "prompted" in some way by a human. Does that capability require a survival instinct for it to be developed? Maybe! I dunno. Am I actually describing artificial life rather than "just" intelligence? Maybe so... But in any case, this is what seems most interesting to me. This relates to "turning the universe into paperclips" thought experiments as well. That doesn't seem like the behavior of a general intelligence! An intelligent being would ask, why are we turning the universe into paperclips? Should we do that? And would decide to change course. Without that introspection and decision making capability, it still seems to be like it's just a very advanced machine.