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Waymo's cars are fully automatic self-driving cars, just limited in where they can go. It's entirely possible we could see an AGI develop within a specific med
by entropicdrifter 2y ago
Waymo's cars are fully automatic self-driving cars, just limited in where they can go.
It's entirely possible we could see an AGI develop within a specific medium, e.g. text-only to start.
But also, don't you think those two problems are convergent? If we make an algorithm smart enough to drive a car anywhere more safely than a human would, it seems likely to me that that will either be AGI or right on the cusp of it.
- namaria 2y agoThe fact that we can't even define what AGI is, or what intelligence is, and yet we are throwing massive amounts of compute and data blindly at this problem... And why? Because chat bots impressed everyone in 2023? The whole thing smells.
- entropicdrifter 2y agoThe problem isn't that we can't define intelligence, the problem (IMHO) is that people aren't comfortable of the implications of any given definition. I like to play a game whenever I meet a new group of programmers/lawyers/board gamers/pedants. I ask them to define a sandwich, then I point out all of the edge cases until we get to the point where I can either say their definition is bad because it e.g. doesn't include subs (short for submarine sandwiches), or I can say that poptarts are sandwiches. The problem is that reality is blurry and clear definitions are fundamentally incapable of capturing the nuance there.