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godelskitoday at 2:39 AM1 replyview on HN

  > If it can do things as good as or better than humans, then either the AI has a type of general intelligence or the human does not.
I don't buy that.

By your definition every machine has a type of general intelligence. Not just a bog standard calculator, but also my broom. It doesn't matter if you slap "smart" on the side, I'm not going to call my washing machine "intelligent". Especially considering it's over a decade old.

I don't think these definitions make anything any clearer. If anything, they make them less. They equate humans to mindless automata. They create AGI by sly definition and let the proposer declare success arbitrarily.


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nomeltoday at 2:51 AM

Sorry, I assumed the context was cleared, with the article above. Here's what I meant:

> If it can do things as good as or better than humans, in general, then either the AI has a type of general intelligence ...

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