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by famouswaffles 1177 days ago
That's because it is and the posts keep shifting.

AGI used to mean artificial and generally intelligent ( which we have passed), then it meant on par with human experts and now it seems to mean better than all experts combined. At this point why not stop the farce and replace the G in there with Godlike.
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lm28469 1177 days ago
> AGI used to mean artificial and generally intelligent ( which we have passed)

Which AI is generally intelligent ?

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famouswaffles 1177 days ago
By any evaluation you can carry out, GPT is generally intelligent. There is absolutely nothing narrow about GPT-4. And you see the sentiment in recent research. Look at what they're being called even with the skirting around the AGI word.

General Purpose Technologies (From the Jobs Paper), General Artificial Intelligence ( from the creativity paper). Look at the second bit, they just switched the words lol.

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lm28469 1177 days ago
The fact that the people who made the damn thing tell otherwise is a good indicator to me, they surely know better than you and me, Sam Altman himself said it's no AGI

Even Microsoft stays very prudent and only talks about "sparks of agi" with "many limitations"

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lm28469 1177 days ago
> GPT is generally intelligent.

Besides the fact that it has literally no idea of the meaning of what it writes ?

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famouswaffles 1177 days ago
Seems to be doing doing a better job than you giving your reading comprehension.

If you have anything to say other than "it's not real understanding!...just because", I'd be happy to hear it.

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lm28469 1177 days ago
Feel free to enlighten me! I'd be happy to hear how an llm understand things it's not made to understand

I've been reading all I can find online about llms and no one besides reddit tech bros defend that they have "understanding" or know anything about "meaning", quite the contrary actually

Anyone who use these tools knows it for a fact, it's very easy to make them fail in a way that absolutely proves without any shadow of a doubt that they don't have these capabilities

Here is a good article with experts opinions and sources: https://jeremyhadfield.com/why-llms-will-not-understand-lang...

It's just one, you'll find dozens, all going in the same direction

Nice knee jerk reaction btw

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