We will never achieve AGI, because we keep moving the goalposts. SOTA models are already capable of outperforming any human on earth in a dizzying array of ways, especially when you consider scale. Humans also produce nonsensical, useless output. Lots of it. Yes, LLMs have many limitations that humans easily transcend. But few if any humans on earth can demonstrate the breadth and depth of competence that a SOTA mode…
> But few if any humans on earth can demonstrate the breadth and depth of competence that a SOTA model possesses. Most humans can count the occurrence of letters in a word. The word competence here is doing quite a bit of work. I think most people understand competence to mean more than just encyclopedic knowledge, with very limited reasoning capability. > AGI never meant human level intelligence until the LLM age. I…
This describes most of the human population as well. Why do we expect machines to be more accurate and perfect in their correctness than humans before we say they are at parity, when they are clearly savant as much as idiot. It’s a strange bias.