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ttkciar t1_ja9klc0 wrote

If AGI is ever developed, then yeah, there would be big changes afoot.

Large language models interpolating within their training data is not AGI, though, no matter how much the sensationalist media wants us to think otherwise.

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leviteakettle t1_jaa4o0t wrote

What is AGI and how is it different?

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ttkciar t1_jaae8nc wrote

Artificial General Intelligence, or AI which thinks about the world in a general way and solves problems with a cognitive process analogous to our own.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence

Large language models like ChatGPT are "narrow AI". They are statistics engines operating upon word sequences, and are not capable of understanding the world nor have anything remotely resembling cognitive processes.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_model

Cognitive scientists currently lack a sufficiently complete theory of intelligence for us to design AGI. Work is ongoing, but there's no way to predict when or if the relevant gaps in cognitive theory will be filled.

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ttkciar t1_jab756x wrote

That's fair, and there are certainly many people who believe the same as you do.

My money is on the first AGI coming about from deliberate design based on cognitive theory, but we'll see what happens.

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