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0 pointssemi-extrinsic2y ago0 comments

I call bullshit.

A key element of anything that can be classified as "general intelligence" is developing internally consistent and self-contained agency, and then being able to act on that. Today we have absolutely no idea of how to do this in AI. Even the tiniest of worms and insects demonstrate capabilities several orders of magnitude beyond what our largest AIs can.

We are about as close to AGI as James Watt was to nuclear fusion.

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nopinsight2y ago

A definition of general intelligence may or may not include agency to act. There is no consensus on that. To learn and to predict, yes, but not necessarily to act.

Does someone with Locked-In Syndrome (LIS) continue to be intelligent? I’d say yes.

Obviously, agency to act might be instrumental for learning and predicting especially early in the life of an AI or a human, but beyond a certain point, internal simulations could substitute for that.

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