| ▲ | bunderbunder 36 minutes ago | |
This is why I kind of hate the term though. We generally agree that humans are intelligent even though they're also pretty damn stupid. For example, one of the stupid things we do is fail to realize that "intelligent" is a word with multiple senses. Which then makes a muddle of conversations like this because we all - myself included - tend to switch back and forth between senses of the term without even realizing we're doing it. So we have sense A of "intelligent", which means something like "capable of abstract reasoning". And we have sense B of "intelligent", which means something more like "the opposite of stupid". These two meanings don't actually have much to do with each other. But a lot of the hype around LLMs and the possibility of them being a form of AGI tends to hinge on tacitly assuming that an artificial system that can do abstract reasoning tasks won't do stupid things. Simply because sense A has one characteristic, sense B has the other, and we happen to use the same word to describe both. | ||
| ▲ | AnimalMuppet 21 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
I think that, yes, it is rather unfair to hold AIs to a higher standard than humans in order to reach the "AGI" label, even though we consider humans to be "general intelligences". But the definition I had in mind was the one in Wikipedia, "matches or surpasses human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks." Well, if it's going to do that, it can't be stupider than capable humans nearly as often as it is. | ||