[hislaziness]

I remember reading this somewhere - "There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.". Though I do not think GPT-4 is even close to AGI it can definitely claim to be better at faking it than many intelligent beings can.

[wskish]

I heard that quote in the context of the difficulty of designing bear-resistant trash bins.

[zdragnar]

Watching adults struggle when encountering baby gates and other child proofing mechanisms for the first time is similarly amusing.

The difference between real intelligence and current attempts at artificial intelligence thus seem to be fundamentally the mode of learning, and thus understanding, rather than the raw knowledge and inference capability.

Or not. Nobody knows I'm actually a dog on the internet, after all.

[DontchaKnowit]

so strange. I heard that saying for the first time yesterday on a youtube video comment section. Weird I've seen in it twice in less than 24 hours

[pixl97]

The phenomenon you are referring to is called the "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon," also known as the "frequency illusion" or "recency illusion." It occurs when you learn something new, such as a word, a concept, or an idea, and suddenly start noticing it everywhere. This effect is believed to be the result of a combination of selective attention and confirmation bias, which make you more likely to notice and remember things that are relevant to your recent experience or interests.

[DontchaKnowit]

yeah yeah. sometimes you do just hear things in clumps tho. Specifically, I heard that from a youtube video that was probably recommended to millions of people on the same day. So yeah, probably not a frequency illusion

[ftxbro]

so we are at the snapshot in time where people think 'AI is smarter than many people but not even close to being as smart as me'

[IIAOPSW]

You say that to mock the supposed arrogance, but unless you are at the bottom of the bell curve per se, there really is a point in history where as a matter of fact the AI is smarter than many of them but not close to being as smart as you.

[hislaziness]

It does not have to be "me". My point is we seem to have a different benchmark for Natural Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence.