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If you showed someone this article 10 years ago, they would say it indicates Artificial General Intelligence has arrived.

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That's the good thing about intelligence: We have no fucking clue how to define it, so the goalpost just keeps moving.

I'd argue the goalpost is already past what some, albeit small, group of humans are capable of.

Intelligence is tough but tractable. Consciousness / sentience, on the other hand, is a mess to define.

In both directions. There are a set of people who are convinced that dolphins, octopi and dogs have intelligence, but GPT et al don't.

I'm in the camp that says GPT4 has it. It's not a superhuman level of general intelligence, far from it, but it is a general intelligence that's doing more than regurgitation and rules-following.

How's a GPT not rules-following?

https://intelligenceexplosion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12...

https://imgchest.com/p/agyv6dlxj78

there likely was enough marketing material from corps 10 years ago which looked like AGI arrived, Watson I think.

Eh. I think 10 years ago we dreamed a little bigger. These models are impressive, but deeply flawed and entirely unintelligent.

1. It's an advertisement/press release, not so much an "article".

2. This would NOT be called even "AI" but "machine learning" 10 years ago. We started using AI as a marketing term for ML about a year ago.

This absolutely would be called AI 10 years ago. Yes, it's a machine learning task, but a computer program you can speak with would certainly qualify as AI to anyone 10 years ago, if not several decades prior as well.

Agree. ML is the implementation, AI is the customer benefit.

I can recall AI being used to describe anything involving neural nets by laymen since google deepmind. approaching 10 years

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