Comment by Jaxkr

6 hours ago

The goalposts of AGI will shift forever. If you showed our current capabilities to someone from 2016 it would be declared AGI.

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staticman2  5 hours ago

Is anyone from 2016 still alive today?

If so I'm hoping we can track them down and have them tell us if they think this is AGI.

  • dexterlagan  1 hour ago

    I'm still here, nearly 50 years and counting. If you had asked me what I imagined AGI would look like back in the 90's, I would have told you "A system that can do everything we can: see, hear, think, do.". If you had shown me GPT-6 back then, I would have said "It looks like a really powerful program, but that's not really what I had in mind.". That's AI, but it's not quite general.

    • nprateem  21 minutes ago

      And then you'd ask it about an area you're knowledgeable in and realise it routinely makes stupid mistakes.

      Or you'd ask it to add a new page to your website and shout at it to use your existing brand colours instead of inventing some and realise it's not AGI at all...

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  • mlmonkey  3 hours ago

    As someone who spent countless nights tweaking Edge Detectors (looking at you, Canny), morphology operators, etc., building models to recognize 10 handwritten digits, let me tell you: the current set of LLMs (even the smaller ones) seem like magic. I had never imagined a computer would do such things in my lifetime.

    • cute_boi  2 hours ago

      Exactly people can say whatever they want, but current level of LLM is AGI level to me. It is already on par with senior programmer if the instruction/prompt is right.

      Once we have 1000 tps, i am sure robots etc.. will also start working like magic.

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  • lmpdev  4 hours ago

    Compared to what we had in 2016 with RNNs, this is effectively “AGI”

    • Panzer04  4 hours ago

      OK, so its way better. that doesn't make it AGI.

      If I can't give it an arbitrary task and have it solve that task eventually, it's not a general intelligence.

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sigpwned  5 hours ago

True. "AGI" has also become a marketing term. Achieving AGI has become valuable, so companies will move the AGI goalposts, over and over again, so they can achieve AGI, over and over again.

manmal  3 hours ago

If you came at it from the perspective of imitating what the human brain does, we now have a very very powerful speech center and short term memory, and vision catching up. The other parts are missing. I‘m sure that’s being heavily researched.