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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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emmanueloga_ ◴[03 Aug 23 16:41 UTC] No.36988222[source]▶
Self consciousness. Human-level of reasoning. Feelings, etc.

We are NOT close to AGI.

* Fancy Markov chain (LLM) is not AGI.

* Stable diffusion style of image generation is NOT AGI.

* Fancy computer vision is NOT AGI.

Honestly, I don't think we are any closer to AGI. What we are seeing is the peak of "fancy tricks" for computer generated artifacts.

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mattwest ◴[03 Aug 23 16:59 UTC] No.36988484[source]▶
Aren't we all just performing probablistic decision paths in our own minds? Would "feelings" improve decision accuracy in artificial systems?
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1. emmanueloga_ ◴[03 Aug 23 17:13 UTC] No.36988708{3}[source]▶
> Aren't we all just performing probabilistic decision paths in our own minds?

Wild speculation. The human brain is still pretty much a black box.

> Would "feelings" improve decision accuracy in artificial systems?

Hard to tell, since we haven't observed any cases of sentient A.I. (able to feel). The only general intelligence we know (humans) have feelings as one of the most prominent features, so much so that "accuracy" is not the main driver for any given human... far from it. I don't know of any human that couldn't in one way or another be classified as "irrational".