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Re:Artificial intelligence is losing hype by tasuki on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @03:39AM (#41297744)
"AGI" is a nonsense term anyway. Humans don't have "general" intelligence either: our intelligence is specialized to our environment.
Re:Artificial intelligence is losing hype by Jensson on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @01:30PM (#41302054)
Humans is the most general intelligence we know about, so that is why we called it general intelligence, because we have made so many intelligences that are specialized on a specific domain like calculators or chess engines we need a word for something that is as general as humans, because being able to replace humans is a very important goal.
Re:Artificial intelligence is losing hype by tasuki on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @06:11AM (#41308688)
Yes, humans are the most general intelligence we know about. That doesn't say much about how general it is, just highlights our limitations.
Re:Artificial intelligence is losing hype by ace32229 on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @06:37AM (#41308871)
This is a bit like saying Earth isn't big, because there are far larger planets etc. out there. For the average conversation, Earth is "big".
Re:Artificial intelligence is losing hype by ben_w on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @06:12PM (#41304626)
"AGI" means many different things to many different people: to me any AI which is general is an AGI so GPT-3.5 counts; to OpenAI it has to be economically transformative to count; to some commentators here it has to be superhuman to count.

I think that none of the initials are boolean; things can be degrees of artificial, degrees of general, and degrees of intelligent.

I think most would assert that humans count as a "general" intelligence, even if they disagree about most of the other things I've put in this comment.