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Comment Re:Climate change shows how humans (Score 1) 172

In short, if AGI is possible, humanity is bigly hosed.

Maybe. Depends entirely on its characteristics. If it is essentially an average human, it is simply worthless as a technology because we know how to make a lot of those and they are not really good at anything. But it does not really look like AGI is possible. On the other hand, it looks increasingly like average people do not use (or maybe do not have) General Intelligence to any degree that matters, hence that "average human" may be within reach eventually, even it that is then not AGI. Not anytime soon though.

Comment Re:Nowhere near AGI (Score 1) 172

Welcome to the same story with AI since its inception. The same nonsense spouted since the 60's and before then, even.

Yep. This is, I think, my 3rd AI hype. Always the same bullshit promises. Never any real delivery, because they do not have what they claim to have.

Choice idiotic quote: "When computers have more transistors than human brains have neurons, they will be smarter than humans" (paraphrased, Marvin "the idiot" Minsky). That is the "intelligence critical mass" theory, which is complete baseless nonsense and wishful thinking, without even a shred of scientifically sound evidence supporting it.

Incidentally, smart people have known all along that it is not a question of data or computing resources. Actually competent AI researchers (apparently a minority in that field) have been saying all along that something critical is missing. And we have no idea what that is and whether it even can be done in machines.

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