Comment by jonahx
4 days ago
> To think that whatever the AI is capable of solving is (and forever will be) the frontier of all problems is deeply delusional. AI got good at generating code, but it still can't even do a fraction of what the human brain can do.
AGI means fully general, meaning everything the human brain can do and more. I agree that currently it still feels far (at least it may be far), but there is no reason to think there's some magic human ingredient that will keep us perpetually in the loop. I would say that is delusional.
We used to think there was human-specific magic in chess, in poker, in Go, in code, and in writing. All those have fallen, the latter two albeit only in part but even that part was once thought to be the exclusive domain of humans.
When I refer to AI, I mean the "AI" that has materialized thus far - LLMs and their derivatives. AGI in the sense that you mean is science fiction, no less than it was 50 years ago. It might happen, it might not, LLMs are in all likelihood not a pathway to get there.