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The 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...
by namaria 2y ago
The 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.