We're not even close to RSI yet. Without human intervention, current models will still spin in circles reverting to the mean. This can be sufficient for most work though, as the mean for AI models is seemingly well above that of the average person. But genius still eludes it. Sure mathematics can be proved, and data can be mined for novel proteins, etc. But where are the AI symphonies? Where's the AI Great American Novel? Mediocrity machines is all they are, yet most of us are (by definition) mediocre, so it doesn't bode well.

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Glemmlko an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Wikipedia has a good definition for it:

"Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks.[1] Unlike artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), whose competence is confined to well‑defined tasks, an AGI system can generalise knowledge, transfer skills between domains, and solve novel problems without task‑specific reprogramming."

I would argue that its not that relevant anymore what specific AGI definition you follow. The impact is already significant and real, progress hasn't stoped and the current chatbots can do arbitrary things without task-specific reprogramming.

Depending on the context size and your problem, i can also teach an chatbot new things adhoc without reprogramming.

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nozzlegear an hour ago | parent [-]

> Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks.

Programmers think that because a slick piece of software is really good at writing code, it must obviously be really good at everything else. Nothing is more complex than the big brain shit they've been doing their whole lives.

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		It can use blender and build you a 3d model of a 2d picture. It can play a digital piano, it can make the piano first and then play it. It can build 3d simulation based on research paper. It already surpasses plenty of 'big brains' on our whole planet.

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TheOtherHobbes an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Just for fun I asked ChatGPT this week to 'play' a screen shot of some sheet music into a WAV file.

And it did. Not by using a music OCR tool, but by inventing one.

No one is spending millions training frontier LLMs on symphony scores or literary fiction. But at this point I'm fairly sure they'd get workable results if they did.

I've been tracking music in AI for more than a decade, and this is the first time I've been able to say that.