> You believe in AGI, but not ASI then?

I have observed that these initialisms do not have generally agreed upon meanings; they are not useful for discussions with people who have not already stated what precisely they count. There is disagreement about all three (/four) initials, and also how to combine them.

To give a sense of scale of how bad this is: some people on this very site have even denied that LLMs are "AI" at all, despite solving for natural language being a long-standing part of the field since, y'know, Turing.

On the other hand, the original ChatGPT was already (by my use of the words), "an AI", and while it was not superhuman in performance at any single thing, it already had a superhuman breadth of knowledge and a superhuman speed. For the former, even being properly fluent in five languages would be an absurd ask for a single human.

Spiky intelligence. How do the "G" (or "S") and the "I" part interact? Does something only count as "AGI" when for each task that has humans who do it regularly, it's as good as the average?* Does it only count as ASI when it's better than all humans at all tasks? Is it not "superhuman" to simply be as good as the median human while being 1% of the cost?

For some people, the cost matters; for others, the speed; for p(doom), competence.

* i.e. as good at speaking Korean as the average Korean, not merely as good at Korean as the average random human selected worldwide; as good at plumbing as the average plumber, not merely the average random human selected from all professions and unemployed alike.

This is like unphysical gibberish. I’m not even kidding. There are such things as the Landauer Limit and the earth has a finite surface area to absorb solar radiation. For crying out loud these are smart people but at the end of the day the singularity is not actually singular.

It’s just silly talk. My dad works for Nintendo and he can give me a gold foil pikachu any time he wants, also, he can delete your Pokémon any time he wants because he has admin access on the Nintendo server. And also he can beat up your dad because he has a black belt. Oh your dad has a black belt? Well actually I lied, he has a rainbow belt which means he can beat up your dad still.

Like this is silly right? It’s insulting. We both know that there are live nuclear weapons whose coordinates point at my city and at your city and the only thing that stops them is two keys and a button. Nuclear weapons, you know those things that have killed hundreds of thousands of living men women and children? There is no room for speculation in that regard: my city has a navy base and there is a live nuclear weapon pointed at it, myself and my entire family will die if it goes off. Now contrast: ahem.

Oh sorry my dad also has like a super secret rainbow STEALTH powers that could actually totally insulate my house from nukes. If you think about it, I actually have no reason to be concerned.

No, I am "How The Fuck Is Cyber Bullying Real... Just Walk Away From The Screen Like, Close Your Eyes" pilled