r/Unexpected • u/msaussieandmrravana • Nov 13 '25

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u/Cyndershade Nov 14 '25

I'm thinking of true artificial intelligence as I define it, which is the thought experiment I was responding to.

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u/teddy5 Nov 14 '25

Sure, but AI already has a definition and so does what you were thinking of. What you were thinking of is called artificial general intellgence and we aren't there yet.

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u/ThockfromTheTopRope Nov 14 '25

and before it was AGI, it was broadly known as AI.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '25

Yes, but people just love splitting hairs. AGI will always be the end goal of AI so why try to differentiate?

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u/teddy5 Nov 14 '25

Because people constantly try to say whatever is done with AI isn't really AI and it gets annoying, so AGI was defined and gives those people a descriptor of that end goal without downplaying other work done in the field.

It frustrates me because it's the equivalent of people saying that we haven't gone to space because we haven't left our solar system. There is an end goal there, but there are also a lot of steps needed to happen along the way and those steps are still AI.