turnpikelad t1_j9liaid wrote on February 22, 2023 at 9:04 PM

My understanding is that there's a view that although AGI will be produced by human engineering, ASI would be produced iteratively by the AGI. So, when we talk about engineering projects to create intelligence, the goal of those projects is simply AGI - or at least, that's the point at which the further progress of tech is unpredictable enough not to be on anyone's balance sheet. So all these labs - OpenAI, Deepmind - say that they are working towards AGI, and that's the term that gets used when talking about those projects and their progress in the media.

veritoast OP t1_j9ln5wd wrote on February 22, 2023 at 9:34 PM

I get that it’s being used as a marketing term for some intelligence destination, it just comes off as disingenuous — cuz, nobody is stopping there. What the term misses in the public eye is the very fact that it’s really the jumping off point not the destination. Maybe I’m splitting hairs but it kind of bugs me. I’m just wondering if I’m alone in that view or not. :-)

iNstein t1_j9lqit0 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 9:54 PM

Not alone at all. I hate the overuse of the term AGI since it really is a nothing burger on this road. I very much doubt that there will ever be agreement that we have achieved AGI and suspect that it will be approximated when we achieved AGI sometime after we have achieved ASI.