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AGI has nothing to do with consciousness, unless consciousness is for some reason required to attain it (which doesn't seem like it's the case). AGI simply mea
by trashtester 2y ago
AGI has nothing to do with consciousness, unless consciousness is for some reason required to attain it (which doesn't seem like it's the case).
AGI simply means that we can create a type of machine that can do any kind of mental task that a human can, at least at a human level.
- short_sells_poo 2y agoConsciousness appears to be a form of intelligence. Is it required for general intelligence (whatever that means)? We don't know. Would humans be classified as having general intelligence if we weren't conscious? In any case, I perhaps worded that poorly. I wasn't saying that consciousness is the same as intelligence, it was just an example of how little we actually understand intelligence. > AGI simply means that we can create a type of machine that can do any kind of mental task that a human can, at least at a human level. What does this even mean? What is human level? The ability to write a symphony? Or the ability to calculate 2+2=4? These are such poorly defined metrics that I don't understand how can we then start throwing around very precise (and short!) timelines for attaining it. The statement: "we'll send a human mission to Mars in the next 5 years" is 10x more believable than this breathless AGI hype, because at least the former is well defined.
- trashtester 2y ago> I wasn't saying that consciousness is the same as intelligence, it was just an example of how little we actually understand intelligence. I would say that current AI's do have a kind of intelligence. It's just not generic enough that we label it AGI. Add an ability to form, optimize an execute plans while also increasing the physical world model, and we're getting really close. Both of these abilities are already being developed.