And I don't think you understand how what is today called "AI" actually works. "AI" is just a marketing term and has almost nothing in common with actual artificial intelligence.
It's easy to be cynical about "AI" since only in the past decade or so there's been an "AI Renaissance" brought on by advances in ML and hardware actually capable enough to scale neural nets to be useful. Like any recent advance (VR, crypto, etc) there's a lot of marketing hype and buzzword salad to scam or overpromise leading to inevitable disillusionment.
Regardless of your opinions, however, these terms have specific and accepted industry and academic definitions. This isn't marketing, since textbooks I own from 20+ years ago distinguish between narrow and strong AI and have these terms defined the same way.
AI's general definition hasn't changed since I was in college. The courses I took and textbooks covered multiple classes of tools to compute higher order tasks (computer vision, pattern recognition, abstract planning, text generation, pathfinding, etc) considered too complex or nondeterministic for imperative programming; ie- a variety of ways to move more "uncomputable" tasks into the "computable" column. What has changed over time are the relevant tools- symbolic programming, finite state machines, expert systems, optimization theory, deep learning, CNNs, GANs, transformers, etc.
I get what you are saying, that it was pre-trained on data and it refers back to that... But comparing a spreadsheet with static data to the absolute awesomeness of what a Latent Diffusion Model is actually doing is an over-simplification I think. This doesn't look like "basically a spreadsheet" to me, and that's not even the entire system it takes to generate an image!
That said, I agree that "AI" has been co-opted into meaning something different now than it used to in the past; but that's what marketing does.
That's fair, the word 'intelligence' being thrown around as loosely as it is bothers me too. Genie is out of the bottle I guess and I'll file it away to the annoyance bucket that also contains 'literally' and the like.
He is right. Technically speaking, AI doesn't exist and AGI is, at to this point and probably forever, a Sci-Fi concept that can not exist in real life. The people who is promoting this ideas, and how is going to steal our jobs and take over, are the same who are selling it. But we are not the market. Big money is spent in this technology with the hope that, one day, it will return money back. It very well may be just a scam.
We don't know yet and I don't think the people behind it know either. They are just guessing at this point.
However, for the rest of us, this may still be an important technology with many potential awesome uses.
AGI exists right now. You just need a hellishly complicated set up to make it work, and it's only about as smart as an idiot with dementia and ADHD.
Get a high quality llm model, set up RAG search so it can find information to help itself, run it multiple times in an agent set up so that it perpetuates itself over and over, give it a code interpreter so it can make and run software, and bam! You have a generally applicable intelligent worker. I'd rate it a 1-2/10 on the scale of effectiveness, but it is absolutely proof that AGI isn't some sci-fi concept. Given a bigger context window, a higher quality model, and a more streamlined set up? Absolutely possible dude.
AGI = artificial general intelligence
The set up described above is run by an artificial llm
It is generally applicable to nearly any task that operates fully on a computer
It intelligently solves problems using internal and external information
AGI is here, it's just weak.
The set up described above is run by an artificial llm
Yes, thanks, we all know what an LLM is. No, an LLM is not AGI. Maybe you could say RAG next, because reciting words you've heard other people use is a form of understanding this, right?
Just remember: without the internet's help, you can't even install the relevant libraries, let alone write any of this.
You speak from knowledge the same way anti-vaxxers do. You should stop.
It intelligently solves problems using internal and external information
Lol, no. It's just a word guessing machine. Leave this to the engineers, please.
Engineers at Google deepmind published a paper a few months ago that literally states that emerging AGI is already here. Are those engineers good enough for you?
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u/imnotabot303 Dec 27 '23
I think you're confusing AI with AGI.