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Re:Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and wh... by adastra22 on Sunday June 15, 2025 @02:53AM (#44280968)
Yes, but “good at” here has a very limited, technical meaning, which can be oversimplified as “better than random chance.”

If something can be better than random chance in any arbitrary problem domain it was not trained on, that is AGI.

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Re:Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and wh... by RugnirViking on Sunday June 15, 2025 @05:58PM (#44285231)
That raises the plausible question; are there problem domains where humans cannot do better than random chance, given repeated attempts?
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Re:Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and wh... by adastra22 on Sunday June 15, 2025 @08:32PM (#44285850)
Bitcoin mining.
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