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Lone-Pine t1_j3ch218 wrote

Not everyone thinks that more scale is needed. Many people such as Elizeir Yudkowsky believe that scale is actually not part of AGI. EY once said that a true AGI running on a 286 would be enough to be dangerous.

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FomalhautCalliclea OP t1_j3equ6e wrote

Indeed. But there are things to consider here:

The polls limit the number of options to 6, which forced me to sort of restrict possibilities.

Another guiding line of this poll was to classifiy the complexity of required achievements by increasing difficulty, and scale is all you need often is presented as the "simplest" way.

Finally, the problem with the views of Yudkowsky on that topic (not that they are bad or uninteresting, quite the contrary) are not very specific and he remains a bit silent on how to get to AGI. Some around this sub even have, and quite recently at that, suggested that Robert Miles directed a meme towards Yudkowsky and the likes of him mocking people that thought only additional layers/higher scale was sufficient. And the underlying message is that people that both remain vague (at least in appearance) and are bullish on their AGI timelines like Yudkowsky believe in the shortest easiest way to AGI, ie scale only.

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