logoalt Hacker News

gslepakyesterday at 6:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Transformers have approximate knowledge of many things. Is this not 'general'?

Of course not. That's like saying the Encyclopedia Britannica is AGI.

> What does AGI mean to you?

I would define AGI as human-like machine intelligence (or superior).

This is difficult for some people to understand because they don't understand what "human-like" means in the first place. Neuroscientists would be able to set some of these wayward computer scientists straight on this question.


Replies

altruiosyesterday at 6:22 PM

> human-like

But is that a hard requirement? Can a machine have Rat-like intelligence? Is all intelligence human-like (human-centric-mind-blindness-much?)?

> Of course not. That's like saying the Encyclopedia Britannica is AGI.

Well, I'd classify that as GK, general knowledge. Not artificial or intelligent.

Let's consider a definition of intelligence as the act of 'manipulating data', have you a better general definition of intelligence?

show 1 reply
chabesyesterday at 6:25 PM

Agreed. The widespread anthropomorphizing is getting so tiring.

I blame it on the big companies in the space, but seeing intelligent folks regularly attributing intelligence to a complex autocomplete system is disappointing.