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by notjulianjaynes 480 days ago
If the bar for AGI is "as smart as a human being," and humans do not-very-smart things like invest obscene amounts of money into developing AGI then maybe it's actually not as high of a bar as we assume it is.
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What’s the quote?

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”

If AGI wants to hit human level intelligence, I think it’s got a long way to go. But if it’s aiming for our collective intelligence, maybe it’s pretty close after all…

The thing is it has 0 intelligence. It has only knowledge
It has pattern-matching. It doesn't have knowledge in the way a human has knowledge, through building an internal model of the world where different facts are integrated together. And it doesn't have knowledge in the way a book has knowledge either, as immutable declarative statements.

It is still interesting tech. I wish it were being used more for search and compression.