Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
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Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
#2> Given the breadth and depth of
GPT-4’s capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version
of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system.
I don't know why, but my brain refuses to accept GPT-4 as something close to AGI. Maybe I am wrong. It is hard to believe that our brain is just a bunch of attention layers and neural nets.
Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
#3> Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4’s capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. I don't know why, but my brain refuses to accept GPT-4 as something close to AGI. Maybe I am wrong. It is hard to believe that our brain is just a bunch of attention layers and neural nets.
There's no rule that agi has to have the same architecture as a human...
Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
#4> Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4’s capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. I don't know why, but my brain refuses to accept GPT-4 as something close to AGI. Maybe I am wrong. It is hard to believe that our brain is just a bunch of attention layers and neural nets.
Conversely, after using ChatGPT-4 (and generally loving it) -- I'm at peace with this maybe fact.
Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
#5I remember reading this somewhere - "There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.". Though I do not think GPT-4 is even close to AGI it can definitely claim to be better at faking it than many intelligent beings can.
Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
#6> Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4’s capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. I don't know why, but my brain refuses to accept GPT-4 as something close to AGI. Maybe I am wrong. It is hard to believe that our brain is just a bunch of attention layers and neural nets.
> It is hard to believe that our brain is just a bunch of attention layers and neural nets.
Our brain isn't, but I'd wager the architectural complexity of a physical, neuronal brain is not optimized for all useful mental tasks, and has perhaps a fair amount of local maxima that are near vestigial in overall positive impact on cognition. Just because the human brain model of cognition is the only way nature has been able to create GI doesn't mean it's the only way GI can be attained.
The best kind of machine is the simplest one needed to produce a desired outcome.
Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
#7> Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4’s capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. I don't know why, but my brain refuses to accept GPT-4 as something close to AGI. Maybe I am wrong. It is hard to believe that our brain is just a bunch of attention layers and neural nets.
Do you think anything digital could ever become conscious?
Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
#8> Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4’s capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. I don't know why, but my brain refuses to accept GPT-4 as something close to AGI. Maybe I am wrong. It is hard to believe that our brain is just a bunch of attention layers and neural nets.
There's no rule that agi has to have the same architecture as a human...
There’s no agreement about what an AGI is or does, let alone how it should do it.
Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
#9> Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4’s capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. I don't know why, but my brain refuses to accept GPT-4 as something close to AGI. Maybe I am wrong. It is hard to believe that our brain is just a bunch of attention layers and neural nets.
Well it’s not quite that simple. Brains use spiking neural networks, not the kind used typically in artificial neural networks like those used by LLMs. The “weights” can be changed over time, new connections and even new neurons formed. And the number of connections (“weights”) is about 500-1000x more in our brain than GPT-3. The connection topography is a lot different.
But ultimately, our brains are still just made of neurons. As far as we know, there isn’t some sort of extreme molecular computing going on (ie memories directly stored in RNA or whatever) or any large scale quantum mechanics (temperature too high).
The differences between AI approaches like artificial neural networks and our animal meat brains could be just the difference between a propeller and flapping wings. Same base mechanics (airfoil producing lift as thrust), different substantiation.
Re: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4
#10I remember reading this somewhere - "There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.". Though I do not think GPT-4 is even close to AGI it can definitely claim to be better at faking it than many intelligent beings can.
I heard that quote in the context of the difficulty of designing bear-resistant trash bins.