Comment by Herring
6 months ago
Apparently 54% of American adults read at or below a sixth-grade level nationwide. I’d say AGI is kinda here already.
6 months ago
Apparently 54% of American adults read at or below a sixth-grade level nationwide. I’d say AGI is kinda here already.
Does a country failed education system has anything to do with AGI?
Yes if you measure AGI against median human.
Why do you think a US citizen represents the median human?
Let me guess, you are from USA.
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The stat is skewed wildly by immigration. The literacy level of native born Americans is higher. The population of foreign born adults is nearly 20% of the total adult population, and as you can imagine many are actively learning English.
It’s not skewed much by immigration. This is because the native-born population is much larger.
See: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/publicat...
51% of native-born adults scored at Level 3 or higher. This is considered the benchmark for being able to manage complex tasks and fully participate in a knowledge-based society. Only 28% of immigrant adults achieved this level. So yes immigrants are in trouble, but it’s still a huge problem with 49% native-born below Level 3.
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The immigration is actually working to boost literacy levels. Americans have been falling off for a long time.
What percentage of those people could never read above a certain grade level? Could 100% of humans eventually, with infinite resources and time, all be geniuses? Could they read and comprehend all the works produced by mankind?
I'm curious.
No but they could probably read better. Just look at the best education systems in the world and propagate that. Generally, all countries should be able to replicate that.
very cool. now let's see the LLM do the laundry and wash my dishes
yes you're free to give it a physical body in the form of a robot. i don't think that will help.
The ability to read is all it takes to have AGI?
From an economics perspective, a more relevant comparison would be to the workers that a business would normally hire to do a particular job.
For example, for a copy-editing job, they probably wouldn't hire people who can't read all that well, and never mind what the national average is. Other jobs require different skills.
Life is a lot bigger than just economics.
See here for example: https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart
The US economy has never been richer, but overall happiness just keeps dropping. So they vote for populists. Do you think more AI will help?
I think it’s wiser to support improving education.
I don’t know whether it will or not. I seems like people are worrying about the economic impact of AI though?
Yet, those illiterate people can still solve enormous amounts of challenges that LLMs cannot.