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322 points atomroflbomber | 3 comments | 03 Aug 23 08:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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lelag ◴[03 Aug 23 09:52 UTC] No.36983601[source]▶
If 2023 ends up giving us AGI, room-temperature superconductors, Starships and a cure for cancer, I think we will able to call it a good year...
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azinman2 ◴[03 Aug 23 15:06 UTC] No.36986942[source]▶
We’re not getting AGI anytime soon…
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AbrahamParangi ◴[03 Aug 23 15:24 UTC] No.36987177[source]▶
What exactly is your definition of a AGI? Because we’re already passing the Turing test, and so I have to wonder if this isn’t just moving the goalposts.
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cubefox ◴[03 Aug 23 15:54 UTC] No.36987583[source]▶
ChatGPT (instruction tuned autoregressive language models) indeed already seems quite general (it's good at conversation Turing tests without faking it like ELIZA), even if the absolute intelligence is limited. Level of generality and intelligence is not the same. Something could be quite narrow but very intelligent (AlphaGo) or quite general but dumb overall (small kid, insect).

Okay, ChatGPT is only text-to-text, but Google & Co are adding more modalities now, including images, audio and robotics. I think one missing step is to fuse training and inference regime into one, just as in animals. That probably requires something else than the usual transformer-based token predictors.

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1. reader5000 ◴[03 Aug 23 16:36 UTC] No.36988173{3}[source]▶
> I think one missing step is to fuse training and inference regime into one, just as in animals

It's not clear it is one. Sleep is training (replay from hippocampus). Wake is inference.

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2. cubefox ◴[03 Aug 23 16:59 UTC] No.36988488[source]▶
Sleep could be for long term memory, but clearly not everything else is "context" (short term memory). Maybe you learn something in the morning which requires you to remember it for >12 hours before you go to bed.
3. godelski ◴[03 Aug 23 18:40 UTC] No.36989917[source]▶
> Wake is inference.

I'm not sure how anyone could be this naive. Mammal brains don't have this train mode inference mode. They are both running at all times. If what you said was true, if I taught you something today you wouldn't be able to perform that action till tomorrow. Hell, schools would be an insane concept if this were true. Try to think a bit more before confidently stating an answer.