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by brookst 336 days ago
I don’t see how this follows. Does AGI mean that it is free to operate and has no hardware / power constraints?

The fact that I see people being paid to dig a trench does not make me doubt the existence of trenching machines. It just means that the tool is not always the best choice for every job.

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> Does AGI mean that it is free to operate and has no hardware / power constraints?

It is that and an autonomous system that can generate $100BN dollars in profits. (OpenAI and Microsoft's definition of AGI)

So maybe when we see a commercial airplane with no human pilots on board but an LLM piloting the plane with no intervention needed?

Would you board such a plane?

Extreme rhetoric weakens arguments. Would you let Albert Einstein perform open heart surgery on you? AHA! Maybe he wasn’t that smart.