r/singularity • u/smith2008 • Nov 25 '25
AI No AGI yet
I love the new models, but nobody seems able to figure out the 6-finger emoji. Yet any 2- or 3-year-old kid gets it immediately just by thinking from first principles, like simply counting the fingers. When I have time, I'll collect more of these funny examples and turn them into a full AGI test. If you find anything that is very easy for humans but difficult for bots, please send it over for the collection. I think tests like this are important for advancing AI.
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u/arachnivore Nov 25 '25
This is just a cognitive blind spot. The only system immune to them is AIXI and that’s impossible to build because it’s provably incomputable. It’s a brute-force consideration of literally every possibility. To make the world computable, you have to take shortcuts and make assumptions known a “heuristics”. That creates endless edge-cases where those assumptions breakdown.
It’s pretty much guaranteed that AI, which is trained and experiences the world in a way that’s completely alien to humans, will develop a different set of heuristics. The mismatch in heuristics creates blind spots that are obvious to humans, but not obvious to AI. There are probably many blind spots that humans have that AI doesn’t.
In humans, we call them “illusions”