Comment by hollowturtle
18 hours ago
> trying to process the sobering fact we will actually see machines meaningfully smarter than ourselves in our lifetime
Being able to reproduce useful patterns yes, smarter no
18 hours ago
> trying to process the sobering fact we will actually see machines meaningfully smarter than ourselves in our lifetime
Being able to reproduce useful patterns yes, smarter no
"Smarter" is a vague term. If a bot can beat you at chess then in some sense it's "smarter" than you about chess. After repeating this feat in enough narrow domains, if you say "but it's not really smarter," this objection might technically be true in some sense, but it starts sounding increasingly hollow.
In conclusion:
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That's an absurdist argument that would make 'smarter' meaningless.
A giraffe isn't smarter than me at being tall.
Playing chess, writing code, finding security bugs, and proving mathematical theorems all seem fairly similar to thinking and don't seem much like being tall.
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