"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it"

Re:"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it" by hnfong on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @09:07PM (#37852336)

There's a blur between the two camps once you get to the so called "AGI" thing.

People think creating super-human intelligence is a technological challenge, but given that we aren't able to consistently rank human-level intelligence, the *recognition* that some AI has attained "super-human" levels is going to be a religious undertaking rather than a technological one.

And we're kind of close to the edges of that already. That's why discussions feel a bit more religious-y than in the past.

tl;dr: until there's a religion that worships some AI as a "god", there won't be any "AGI".

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Re:"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it" by ben_w on Friday October 13, 2023 @05:20AM (#37868545)

> tl;dr: until there's a religion that worships some AI as a "god", there won't be any "AGI".

I fear you may be correct. Though now I'm thinking of how AI have been gods in fiction, and hoping that this will be more of a Culture (or Bob) scenario than a I Have No Mouth scenario.

(And if the AI learns what humans are like and how to behave around them from reading All The Fiction, which may well be the case… hmm. Depends what role the AI chooses for itself: I hear romance is the biggest genre, so we may well be fine…)

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