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by joefourier 112 days ago
When did AGI start meaning ASI?

LLMs are artificial general intelligence, as per the Wikipedia definition:

> generalise knowledge, transfer skills between domains, and solve novel problems without task‑specific reprogramming

Even GPT-3 could meet that bar.
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bornfreddy 112 days ago
Wtf? Once it was AI. Then the models started passing the Turing test and calling themselves AI, so we started using AGI to say "truly intelligent machines". Now, as per the definition you quoted, apparently even GPT-3 is AGI, so we now have to use "ASI" to mean "intelligent, but artificial"?

I think I'll just keep using AI and then explain to anyone who uses that term that there is no "I" in today's LLMs, and they shouldn't use this term for some years at least. And that when they can, we will have a big problem.

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joefourier 111 days ago
What's your definition of intelligence? If you exclude LLMs, you might have to exclude quite a few humans as well.
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ezst 111 days ago
LLMs are artificial intelligence illusion engines, they only "reason" as far as there's an already made answer in their dataset that they can retrieve and eventually tweak (when things go best). Take them where there's no training data and give them the new axioms to solve your specific problem and see them fail with incorrect gibberish provided as confident answer. Humans of any level of intelligence wouldn't behave like that.
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