Comment by gonehome
3 years ago
It matters less because in the theology case it’s a lot easier to dismiss 1. - the divine religious arguments for a supernatural god are super weak so the details don’t matter. It’s much more likely humans just making up myths.
With AI we’re seeing the capabilities improve rapidly and the arguments about why AGI is impossible or will be constrained for some reason are the weak ones.
> we’re seeing the capabilities improve rapidly
Yes, but towards what? How do we know that, say, Transformer based LLMs are closer to superintelligence than earlier architectures?
To make such an assumption, there would need to be something that we could measure to track the process. To the best of my knowledge, there is no accurate definition of intelligence, nor superintelligence.
So how would we know where on the scale of [intelligent-------superintelligent] a given system is, or whether it even is on that scale?