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> To support modern AGIs, we designed Taichi—large-scale photonic chiplets “Modern AGIs” because we had classic AGIs? Last I checked AGI remains in the realm o

> To support modern AGIs, we designed Taichi—large-scale photonic chiplets “Modern AGIs” because we had classic AGIs? Last I checked AGI remains in the realm of science fiction and prank tweets. I hope this is a translation snafu as it reads like clickbait.

Beijinger 3y ago
Science is a pretty solid magazine.
timeon 3y ago
Term 'AGI' is used for what we had 'AI' before. Now 'ASI' is used instead of 'AGI'. We will run out of 'A[A-Z]I' before there will be actual AI.
- FerretFred 3y ago
  > We will run out of A[A-Z]I before... No problem - we'll just ask AI to find a new solution!
williamtrask 3y ago
Honestly if the word AGI experiences some term inflation that wouldn’t be the worst thing.
- ajmurmann 3y ago
  It would be a language genocide
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safog 3y ago
faux pas from a time traveler
ilaksh 3y ago
Plenty of people have been using the term AGI for the general purpose nature of what the SOTA LLMs can do. And, I think it's reasonable, because they are very general when you compare them to the previous generation of narrow AI models. We don't have another good term. Unfortunately, "AGI" is also overloaded to mean not just general purpose but also alive, embodied, complete emulation of human, sentient, godlike, etc. And everyone has a slightly different definition of which humanlike or godlike characteristics of people or animals something should have to be qualified as AGI. I think this is a failure of language or language use as much as anything. But prior to having something like GPT-4 or Claude-3 with vision you had to train a different model or use a different library for every task. Now you can use the same model for many very different tasks. It's clearly got the "general" part, even though it doesn't have _all_ of the cognitive abilities of humans or even animals.
__MatrixMan__ 3y ago
We don't even have consensus on the existence of general intelligence, artificial or otherwise, so I think the linguistic specificity bar is set rather low here.

Beijinger 3y ago

Science is a pretty solid magazine.

timeon 3y ago

Term 'AGI' is used for what we had 'AI' before. Now 'ASI' is used instead of 'AGI'. We will run out of 'A[A-Z]I' before there will be actual AI.

FerretFred 3y ago
> We will run out of A[A-Z]I before... No problem - we'll just ask AI to find a new solution!

williamtrask 3y ago

Honestly if the word AGI experiences some term inflation that wouldn’t be the worst thing.

ajmurmann 3y ago
It would be a language genocide

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safog 3y ago

faux pas from a time traveler

ilaksh 3y ago

Plenty of people have been using the term AGI for the general purpose nature of what the SOTA LLMs can do. And, I think it's reasonable, because they are very general when you compare them to the previous generation of narrow AI models. We don't have another good term. Unfortunately, "AGI" is also overloaded to mean not just general purpose but also alive, embodied, complete emulation of human, sentient, godlike, etc. And everyone has a slightly different definition of which humanlike or godlike characteristics of people or animals something should have to be qualified as AGI. I think this is a failure of language or language use as much as anything. But prior to having something like GPT-4 or Claude-3 with vision you had to train a different model or use a different library for every task. Now you can use the same model for many very different tasks. It's clearly got the "general" part, even though it doesn't have _all_ of the cognitive abilities of humans or even animals.

__MatrixMan__ 3y ago

We don't even have consensus on the existence of general intelligence, artificial or otherwise, so I think the linguistic specificity bar is set rather low here.