[et2o]

I don’t find this April Fool’s joke (2017) very funny. What are they parodying exactly?

[exo-pla-net]

They're parodying those who claim that AGI will never exceed human intelligence.

[umvi]

IMO AGI will never exist period let alone exceed human intelligence. Sure we'll have increasingly powerful pattern recognition, but that's all it will ever be

[simonh]

And that’s fine, you might even be right. It’s not the opinion they are parodying, it’s the foolish arguments often used to “prove” it.

[ALittleLight]

This was posted today, I assume there is some relation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29289431

[rbanffy]

Unfortunately, for the authors, this was not posted on April 1st.

[karatinversion]

Arguments that superintelligent machines are impossible.

[et2o]

Much funnier now that it's been explained to me. I certainly lack even human intelligence at some moments.

[theaeolist]

Indeed. I hope posting jokey papers on the Arxiv does not become a thing.

[nsxwolf]

Seems as superficial and facile as saying machines will never wear hats.