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OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI

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625 points lukebennett | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 13:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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irrational ◴[14 Nov 24 18:03 UTC] No.42139106[source]▶
> The AGI bubble is bursting a little bit

I'm surprised that any of these companies consider what they are working on to be Artificial General Intelligences. I'm probably wrong, but my impression was AGI meant the AI is self aware like a human. An LLM hardly seems like something that will lead to self-awareness.

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og_kalu ◴[14 Nov 24 18:14 UTC] No.42139257[source]▶
At this point, AGI means many different things to many different people but OpenAI defines it as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans in most economically valuable tasks"
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troupo ◴[14 Nov 24 18:56 UTC] No.42139793[source]▶
This definition suits OpenAI because it lets them claim AGI after reaching an arbitrary goal.

LLMs already outperform humans in a huge variety of tasks. ML in general outperform humans in a large variety of tasks. Are all of them AGI? Doubtful.

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1. fragmede ◴[14 Nov 24 22:08 UTC] No.42141745[source]▶
It's not just marketing bullshit though. Microsoft is the counterparty to a contract with that claim. money changes hands when that's been achieved, so I expect if sama thinks he's hit it, but Microsoft does not, we'll see that get argued in a court of law.