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0 pointskmacdough7mo ago0 comments

What does AGI mean to you, specifically?

As is, AI is quite intelligent, in that it can process large quantities of diverse unstructured information and build meaningful insights. And that intelligence applies across an incredibly broad set of problems and contexts. Enough that I have a hard time not calling it general. Sure, it has major flaws that are obvious to us and it's much worse at many things we care about. But that's doesn't make it not intelligent or general. If we want to set human intelligence as the baseline, we already have a word for that: superintelligence.

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Yizahi7mo ago

Is Casio calculator intelligent? Because it can also be turned on, assigned an input, produce output, and turn off. Just like any existing LLM program. What is the big difference between them in regard of "intelligence", if the only criteria is a difficulty with which same task may be performed by a human? Maybe producing computationally intensive outputs is not a sole sign of intelligence?

Jensson7mo ago

> If we want to set human intelligence as the baseline, we already have a word for that: superintelligence.

Superintelligence implies its above human level, not at human level. General intelligence implies it can do what humans can do in general, and not just replace a few of the things humans can do.

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