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That analogy is nonsense. We're actually making measurable gains in AI and the pace of progress is only increasing. Belief in this isn't based on faith, it is based on empirical evidence.

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Elevator- and construction-technology has been improving for centuries. We will surely make a Tower of Babel that reaches the top of the Sky—it’s only a question of when.

Are you suggesting that artificial minds are unattainable in principle, or that the much-hyped language models are elevators for a task that requires rockets?

I suspect that avgcorrection is suggesting that we don't have enough evidence to know whether either is the case.

More the latter.

I’m agnostic on the whether artificial minds can be made in principle and very much against people calling their chatbots for “minds”.

Another hyperbolic analogy. What a great argument, I'm convinced.

Not as hyperbolic as the GAI true believers.

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