That just says we don't need to design an AI like a brain. That's not part of this discussion at all.
> computers could count the Rs in strawberry since vacuum tubes. that measure is irrelevant.
I'm confused, is your argument something like "It's too easy so AGI doesn't need to be able to do it"?
The fact that very basic computers can do it makes failures embarrassing when testing for AGI, not irrelevant.
Do you possess magnetoreception? a stupid pigeon can "see" the earth's magentic field. why are you blind to it? does a lack of magnetoreception make your intelligence any less "general"
no, you're just blind to it because that's just the way it is.
LLMs are blind to character counting because that's the way they are.
It didn't stop ChatGPT from finding the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample.
Human intelligence and machine intelligence are only going to cross over to a certain degree.
same as plane flight and bird flight are only kinda related.
But if I can't calculate it myself I know to use that basic computer to do it, not make up an answer.
> Human intelligence and machine intelligence are only going to cross over to a certain degree.
That's where the word "General" kicks in. If there's big limitations on the overlap forever, then there will never be AGI.
maybe. we'll see.