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Re:The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in t... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:58PM (#35618367)
> Impressive timing on that prediction assuming GPT-4's release on March 14th counts as "superhuman intelligence".

How many legs does a dog have, if you assume a tail is a leg?

Four. Assuming it doesn't make it so.

In the same way, you can assume whatever you want, but GPT-4 is not "superhuman intelligence". It just isn't, for any meaningful definition of those words.

Re:The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in t... by phkahler on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @03:05PM (#35618479)
>> In the same way, you can assume whatever you want, but GPT-4 is not "superhuman intelligence". It just isn't, for any meaningful definition of those words.

It's also not 2030 yet, so the prediction has 7 more years to be false in its full form. If it happens in 2040 will people be upset that it was 10 years later than predicted?

Re:The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in t... by Teever on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @03:33PM (#35618903)
1993 + 30 = 2023
Re:The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in t... by mmh0000 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:58PM (#35623334)
Get outta here with your witchcraft!
Re:The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in t... by bbor on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:52AM (#35625086)
He specifically gives the range 2005-2030 in the paper :)
Re:The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in t... by TheMechanist on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:18AM (#35624519)
Yes, that's what ChatGPT says: Assuming that a tail is a leg does not actually make it a leg. Dogs have four legs, regardless of the length of their tail.
Re:The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in t... by nuancebydefault on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @07:40AM (#35626939)
So the fact that it might have outsmarted you means it is not intelligent?

I think humans tend to have a definition of intelligence that is too far fetched in my opinion. They confluate it with things like conscience, meaningfulness etc, which just might be human hallucinations.