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Re:OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching 'AGI' claus... by CamperBob2 on Saturday December 07, 2024 @11:13AM (#42350668)
We’ll never see AGI in its original definition in our lifetimes. It doesn’t take being a rocket…company buying billionaire.

No, because whenever somebody says they've achieved it, someone else -- maybe you -- will say they haven't. The question will never be settled to everyone's satisfaction.

We don't know what intelligence is, or how to measure it objectively, much less how to define "general intelligence." So it's hard to say whether current approaches to AI will get there or not.

I see it as a tool to be used by people, one that may evolve into the most powerful tool we've ever built. I don't find the question of "intelligence" all that interesting.

Re:OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching 'AGI' claus... by Barrin92 on Saturday December 07, 2024 @11:28AM (#42350788)
> whenever somebody says they've achieved it, someone else -- maybe you -- will say they haven't

And as long as that discussion still makes sense it's pretty obvious that we haven't achieved it. There's a very clear inflection point, when anything deserving that label actually exists we'll have 50% economic growth a year, the 50 most popular professions will be done by machines, the cost of science will fall by magnitudes because everyone can spawn a hundred scientists with the click of a mouse, and you'll walk out the door and the world will look to you like the 1950s looked to someone from 1500. We aren't even going to be capable of haggling about arcane theoretical differences.