Comment by kachapopopow
6 months ago
There is something easy you can always do to tell if something is just hype: we will never be able to make something smarter than a human brain on purpose. It effectively has to happen either naturally or by pure coincidence.
The amount of computing power we are putting in only changes that luck by a tiny fraction.
> we will never be able to make something smarter than a human brain on purpose. It effectively has to happen either naturally or by pure coincidence.
Why is that? We can build machines that are much better than humans in some things (calculations, data crunching). How can you be certain that this is impossible in other disciplines?
that's just a tiny fraction of what a human brain can do, sure we can get something better in very narrow subjects, but something as being able to recognize patterns apply that to solve problems is something way beyond anything we can even think of right now.
Ok, but how does that mean that we will never be able to do it? Imagine telling people 500 years ago that you will build a machine that can bring the to the moon. Maybe AGI is like that, maybe it’s really impossible. But how can people be confident that AGI is something humans can’t create?
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