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Re:Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by _rpd on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @11:36PM (#26643243)
Once you have an AI with a human approximate general intelligence, the ability to instantiate it thousands of times and/or run it at thousands of times 'baseline' speed to explore a problem space is going to look like a big IQ boost.
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Re:Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by coldtea on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:14AM (#26645447)
9 pregnant women can't produce a baby in 1 month.
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Re:Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter by _rpd on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:39AM (#26647137)
I don’t think this analogy is helpful. If an IQ 110 AI can research 10^6 person-hours for each IQ 110 person-hour, the results are going to look like a qualitative difference (i.e., higher IQ). That said, I do think that some problem spaces require ‘true’ IQ advances to address - insight vs. bruteforce.
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