leviteakettle t1_jaa4o0t wrote on February 27, 2023 at 11:21 PM

Reply to comment by ttkciar in Will the rampant evolution of AI be the next Industrial Revolution? by Niobium_Sage

What is AGI and how is it different?

ttkciar t1_jaae8nc wrote on February 28, 2023 at 12:28 AM

Artificial General Intelligence, or AI which thinks about the world in a general way and solves problems with a cognitive process analogous to our own.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence

Large language models like ChatGPT are "narrow AI". They are statistics engines operating upon word sequences, and are not capable of understanding the world nor have anything remotely resembling cognitive processes.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_model

Cognitive scientists currently lack a sufficiently complete theory of intelligence for us to design AGI. Work is ongoing, but there's no way to predict when or if the relevant gaps in cognitive theory will be filled.

[deleted] t1_jaat6f0 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:18 AM

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ttkciar t1_jab756x wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:08 AM

That's fair, and there are certainly many people who believe the same as you do.

My money is on the first AGI coming about from deliberate design based on cognitive theory, but we'll see what happens.