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hollowturtletoday at 6:01 PM1 replyview on HN

> trying to process the sobering fact we will actually see machines meaningfully smarter than ourselves in our lifetime

Being able to reproduce useful patterns yes, smarter no


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skybriantoday at 6:07 PM

"Smarter" is a vague term. If a bot can beat you at chess then in some sense it's "smarter" than you about chess. After repeating this feat in enough narrow domains, if you say "but it's not really smarter," this objection might technically be true in some sense, but it starts sounding increasingly hollow.

In conclusion:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wkzjtd...

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