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A major criticism people had of generative AI is that it was incapable of doing stuff like math, clearly showing it doesn't have any intelligence. Now it can do it, and it's still not impressive?
Show that AI to people 20 years ago and they would be amazed this is even possible. It keeps getting more advanced and people keep just dismissing it, possibly not realizing how impressive this shit and recent developments actually are?
Sure, it probably still doesn't have real intelligence.. but how will people be able to tell when something like this has? When it can reason in a similar way we can? It already can imitate reason plenty well.. and what is the difference? Is a 3-year old more intelligent? What about a 5-year old? If a 5-year old fails at reasoning in the same way an AI does, do we say it's not intelligent?
I feel like we are nearing the point where these generative AIs are getting more intelligent than the least intelligent humans, and what then? Will we dismiss the AI, or the humans?
I agree with you. Your statement made me remember this comic:
HAL was dreamt up after the first generation of AI reseacher made audacious claims that AGI was really close. For example, He Simon said "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do."
The issue isn't that we can or can't do it, we aren't even sure what it is or how to test for it yet.
When AI could be capable of choosing between good and bad, then it will be a real AI for me.