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by p1esk 895 days ago
Fascinating. What’s “actual AI”?
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> What’s “actual AI”

Is Ibn Sina (Avicenna, year ~1000) fine?

> [the higher faculty proper of humans is] the primary function of a natural body possessing organs in so far as it commits acts of rational choice and deduction through opinion; and in so far as it perceives universal matters

Or, "Intelligence is the ability to reason, determining concepts".

(And a proper artificial such thing is something that does it well.)

It is a tool that has the ability to craft a prompt that will break current state of the art model.

It is a tool that can be given a project in language X and produce an idomatic port in language Y.

It is a tool that given a 20 pages paper spec will ask the questions needed to clarify the specs.

Something that can reason and figure things out without having ever been exposed to the information during training.
This either includes GPT-4 or excludes people
It’s whatever computers can’t do, dummy! :P