Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely about his AI concern

Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by chrsjxn on Monday May 01, 2023 @03:03PM (#35777523)

So much of this is going to hinge on what "smarter" means. My local library has heaps more knowledge than most individual people, but it'd be weird to call it "smarter" than a person.

And automation is generally cheaper and faster than human labor, but that's not a very compelling definition of "smarter" either.

But, as of right now, LLMs can't generate new knowledge or validate their own outputs. We'll need a pretty significant breakthrough for that to change, and breakthroughs are pretty unpredictable.

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by ux-app on Monday May 01, 2023 @08:20PM (#35781345)

>But, as of right now, LLMs can't generate new knowledge

my bar for tech singularity is an AI that can clean a toilet.

GPT's language model is already sophisticated enough to "understand" this instruction. It's missing spatial understanding and a way to interact with the real world, but I'd be honestly very surprised if there isn't a GPT or equivalent already hooked up to cameras/motors/actuators in a lab somewhere.

within our lifetimes we'll be reading papers with titles like: "does my roomba have feelings?"

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