Yeah, intelligence is a continuum. Animals have varying degrees of intelligence (esp. corvids, cetaceans, cephalopods, other “c” animals…), but that isn’t the same as saying they have human-level intelligence. AGI and ASI are the important thresholds.
They are beginning to be able to correlate images, sounds, text (in multiple languages). If we fitted them with other sensors (chemical receptors, accelerometers, etc) and feed them sufficient training data, they would be able to correlate those as well. I would call this correlative ability the “grasping of ideas”.
Where they fail is abstraction. But, this is a failing of human intelligence as well. Some fully productive humans never develop more than a rudimentary capacity for abstraction, arguably less than LLMs have demonstrated.
Don’t get me wrong: They’re at toddler-levels of actual intelligence and only simulate greater capacity by regurgitating what they’ve learned people like to hear. But, a hell of a lot of people are guilty of the same damn thing.
Nah, it’s not intelligent.
Everything we have today wouldn’t be considered AI in science fiction.
Or in my definition. But hey what do IT experts know, right?
Yeah, intelligence is a continuum. Animals have varying degrees of intelligence (esp. corvids, cetaceans, cephalopods, other “c” animals…), but that isn’t the same as saying they have human-level intelligence. AGI and ASI are the important thresholds.
Human intelligence is a spectrum. I would say that current LLMs are at about the 20th percentile on that spectrum.
That says more about my opinions on human intelligence than LLM…
Wouldn’t that require the LLM to actually grasp ideas?
Even brain dead people can understand some things
Define “grasp ideas”.
They are beginning to be able to correlate images, sounds, text (in multiple languages). If we fitted them with other sensors (chemical receptors, accelerometers, etc) and feed them sufficient training data, they would be able to correlate those as well. I would call this correlative ability the “grasping of ideas”.
Where they fail is abstraction. But, this is a failing of human intelligence as well. Some fully productive humans never develop more than a rudimentary capacity for abstraction, arguably less than LLMs have demonstrated.
Don’t get me wrong: They’re at toddler-levels of actual intelligence and only simulate greater capacity by regurgitating what they’ve learned people like to hear. But, a hell of a lot of people are guilty of the same damn thing.
… That’s what they say I’m sci fi movies.