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Debates about artificial intelligence are often semantic debates. Artificial intelligence is not "far from existing," but artificial general intelligence (AGI)
by fsndz 2y ago
Debates about artificial intelligence are often semantic debates. Artificial intelligence is not "far from existing," but artificial general intelligence (AGI) is far from being achieved (large language models still do not imitate human reasoning well enough and lack generalization). An artificial intelligence that functions like human intelligence, instead of merely imitating it, is far from existing.
However, several forms of artificial intelligence already exist. For example, large language models (LLMs) can now perform tasks that, until recently, required human intelligence (such as writing an essay to defend a thesis, summarizing content, critiquing, advising…).