You'd be surprised what the AVERAGE human fails to do that you think is easy, my mom can't fucking send an email without downloading a virus, i have a coworker that believes beyond a shadow of a doubt the world is flat.
The Average human is a lot dumber than people on hackernews and reddit seem to realize, shit the people on mturk are likely smarter than the AVERAGE person
Not being able to send an email or believing the world is flat it’s not a sign of intelligence, I’d rather say it’s more about culture or being more or less scholarized. Your mom or coworker still can do stuff instinctively that is outperforming every algorithm out there and still unexplained how we do it. We still have no idea what intelligence is
Yet the average human can drive a car a lot better than ChatGPT can, which shows that the way you frame "intelligence" dictates your conclusion about who is "intelligent".
Is that reason because Buffalo is the 81st most populated city in the United States, or 123rd by population density, and Waymo currently only serves approximately 3 cities in North America?
We already let computers control cars because they're better than humans at it when the weather is inclement. It's called ABS.
I would guess you haven't spent much time driving in the winter in the Northeast.
There is an inherent danger to driving in snow and ice. It is a PR nightmare waiting to happen because there is no way around accidents if the cars are on the road all the time in rust belt snow.
If you take an electrical sensory input signal sequence, and transform it to a electrical muscle output signal sequence you've got a brain. ChatGPT isn't going to drive a car because it's trained on verbal tokens, and it's not optimized for the type of latency you need for physical interaction.
And the brain doesn't use the same network to do verbal reasoning as real time coordination either.
But that work is moving along fine. All of these models and lessons are going to be combined into AGI. It is happening. There isn't really that much in the way.
Maybe, but no doubt these "dumb" people can still get dressed in the morning, navigate a trip to the mall, do the dishes, etc, etc.
It's always been the case that the things that are easiest for humans are hardest for computers, and vice versa. Humans are good at general intelligence - tackling semi-novel problems all day long, while computers are good at narrow problems they can be trained on such as chess or math.
The majority of the benchmarks currently used to evaluate these AI models are narrow skills that the models have been trained to handle well. What'll be much more useful will be when they are capable of the generality of "dumb" tasks that a human can do.
We can't agree whether Portia spiders are intelligent or just have very advanced instincts. How will we ever agree about what human intelligence is, or how to separate it from cultural knowledge? If that even makes sense.
I guess my point is more, if we can't decide about Portia Spiders or Chimps, then how can we be so certain about AI. So offering up Portia and Chimps as counter examples.
Yeah, I didn't realize Chimp studies, or neuroscience were out of vogue. Even in tech, people form strong 'beliefs' around what they think is happening.
The Average human is a lot dumber than people on hackernews and reddit seem to realize, shit the people on mturk are likely smarter than the AVERAGE person