Will A.I. Ever Be Smarter Than a Four-Year-Old?

I would even go as far as saying that the fact that we can't rigorously define what "smarter than a four-year-old" means is a limitation of the current intelligence or knowledge of Humans. Part of the trajectory of machine intelligence is independent of our own knowledge, for example through hardware improvements. They could get past our level before we can understand it ourselves.

We can see no roadblock preventing advances from getting to that point. But the volume of data is admittedly beyond our ability to currently accurately even quantify much less record or process.

Or, somewhat more plausibly, some theory or technique that constitutes a minor subfield right now but could be the next big thing in another 20-30 years, or whenever someone just makes it really fast.

> Nici măcar nu voi începe pe chineză / japoneză în engleză (și în franceză) sau invers.

and in Italian it goes like:

> Non inizierò nemmeno dal cinese / dal giapponese all'inglese (e dal francese) o viceversa.

Now, this is literally a perfect translation, as "I won't even start" would literally be translated into the Romanian "Nici măcar nu voi începe" and the Italian "Non inizierò nemmeno", but the meaning of the English phrase is totally different from meaning of the Romanian and Italian phrases. In English the meaning of your last sentence goes something like this:

> Don't make me start a discussion on how badly Google Translate does the Chinese/Japanese to English translation

while in both Romanian and Italian the meaning of the last sentence (as run through Google Translate) doesn't make almost any sense, because it tells us, the auditory, that the speaker literally won't start "on/from Chinese/Japanese to English", but we are not instructed on what the speaker will start, we have no idea what he's referring to. Of course, this being an English-spoken forum and us knowing English (on top of our native languages) we can understand that Google Translate used a literal translation of "I won't even start" to our native languages and we can make the necessary adjustment in our heads, but to users who have no knowledge of the English language whatsoever this would sound totally alien.

Her brain processing is changing on the most fundamental level. Her ability to focus on a task has improved massively. Far less random gibberish is coming out of her. She is now capable of thinking how others would feel in her shoes and now plans for the future. Her random output isn't a Markov chain with a better dataset. The input from our world is changing the wiring up there in a way that no ML model is changed by its data.

As someone who has learned a 2nd language as a child and a 3rd as an adult, I also know personally that it's far more than the dataset alone.

EDIT: updated comment after re-reading the chain.