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turnpikelad t1_j9liaid wrote
Reply to Why are we so stuck on using “AGI” as a useful term when it will be eclipsed by ASI in a relative heartbeat? by veritoast
My understanding is that there's a view that although AGI will be produced by human engineering, ASI would be produced iteratively by the AGI. So, when we talk about engineering projects to create intelligence, the goal of those projects is simply AGI - or at least, that's the point at which the further progress of tech is unpredictable enough not to be on anyone's balance sheet. So all these labs - OpenAI, Deepmind - say that they are working towards AGI, and that's the term that gets used when talking about those projects and their progress in the media.
turnpikelad t1_j6jhupl wrote
One super-clear example of speciation since the emergence of humans is polar bears. They only diverged from brown bears around 100 thousand years ago, and some of the more significant morphological changes apparently date from just the last 10000 years.
(According to wikipedia at least.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear#Taxonomy_and_evolution )
It's fascinating because it doesn't seem like any other animal in the history of the planet had thrived in that particular niche (large land mammal mainly living on sea ice as a predator of marine species).
turnpikelad t1_jcz5nuf wrote
Reply to Teachers wanted to ban calculators in 1988. Now, they want to ban ChatGPT. by redbullkongen
What will be the language model equivalent of the TI-84?