[tim333]

> I think [AGI is] alchemy-level nonsense.

Fair enough but he doesn't give much factual reasoning to support that. If you believe the brain is a biological computer and AI computing keeps advancing, at some point it will be able to do the same stuff or better, which is what most people think of as AGI.

I wrote about that for my uni entrance exam 43 years ago and it's always just seemed obvious common sense to me. I know Turing wrote about it before then but I never read that - it's just seems kind of obvious it'll happen.

[dreamfactored]

Working on a follow up article on exactly this (it is mathematically impossible and we have receipts...)

[tim333]

I'm not sure what mathematical principle you could invoke that would make sense?

Roger Penrose made an argument like we can know Gödel's theorem is true without being able to prove it but AI can't, but I think you can figure both are guessing in a similar pattern recognising kind of way.

[dreamfactored]

Hopefully will post here before the weekend but tl;dr the mathematics to model neurons has not yet been discovered/invented