Comment by Buttons840
6 months ago
You're saying we need to write down all intellectual tasks? How would that help?
If an AI is better at some tasks (that happen to be written down), it doesn't mean it is better at all tasks.
Actually, I'd lower my threshold even further--I originally said 50%, then 20%, then 5%--but now I'll say if an AI is better than 0.1% of people at all intellectual tasks, then it is AGI, because it is "general" (being able to do all intellectual tasks), and it is "intelligent" (a label we ascribe to all humans).
But the AGI has to be better at all (not just some) intellectual tasks.
> An AI (a computer program) that is better at [almost] any task than 5% of the human specialists in that field has achieved AGI.
Let's say you have a candidate AI and assert that it indeed has passed the above benchmark. How do you prove that? Don't you have to say which tasks?
Well, to state it crudely, you just have to find a dumb person who is inferior to the AI at every single intellectual task. This is cruel, and I don't envy that dumb person, but who knows, I might end up being that dumb person--we all might.