Comment on Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down

• entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The human brain is made of components, so why not an AI brain?

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• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t human intelligence exactly what most people mean by “general intelligence”? The real question is whether it can be created artificially.

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• drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn’t “general”.

  Can you elaborate? I don’t get what you mean by this.

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  • br3d@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you’ve got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, and though. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn’t going to be general - it’s going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing… And at that point you’ve not got some special interesting AGI - you’ve just reinvented the idea of apps

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    • drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you’ve misunderstood what AGI means.

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