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Bernardo de La Paz

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15. No. GAI is here and it does NOT "think for itself". AGI is Artificial General Intelligence, that's the unicorn

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 06:31 AM

Dec 5

GAI, Generative AI is here now. It is a form of neural net that can run forwards and backwards. When run backwards, it makes text or images that it would recognize if it were run forward. That makes it prone to errors (so called "hallucinations", which is a ridiculous term for "error" ) and of limited use, but still useful enough for companies to invest billions in it and gain functionality.

GAI is NOT recursive "if statements". Nor is AGI recursive if statements. Even applying the term "recursive" to if statements is kind of illiterate. If statements do not recurse and cannot recurse. At most they can be nested. "if statements" is 1960s first steps in AI.

AGI is the unicorn.

Nothing available now or for at least the next few years and probably for a decade or two at least is "thinking for itself". That would be AGI, Artificial General Intelligence.

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Sam Altman lowers the bar for AGI [View all] BootinUp Dec 4 OP

What is AGI? DBoon Dec 4 #1

There is more than one meaning but BootinUp Dec 4 #3

and it is the point where one of these ai systems can intelligently react to the world in real time Voltaire2 Dec 4 #7

Probably G means Generative. And it's obvious he's illiterate. haele Dec 4 #9

so go convince tens of thousands of people that AGI is the wrong term, should be a cinch for such a huge brain thebigidea Dec 4 #10

I can't convince them, and it's not because of "my big brain" haele Dec 4 #13

No. GAI is here and it does NOT "think for itself". AGI is Artificial General Intelligence, that's the unicorn Bernardo de La Paz Dec 5 #15

Adjusted gross income ? Inkey Dec 4 #2

"Matters much less"? intrepidity Dec 4 #4

Lost my chance to read it again paywall, but BootinUp Dec 4 #5

I think that for some time it will not be as good as some people hope/fear. Bernardo de La Paz Dec 4 #6

I agree... Happy Hoosier Dec 4 #8

I mean no shit, there's no judgment or thinking involved in a LLM. This is all a given. thebigidea Dec 4 #11

AGI? ... LLM? please define all these mysterious letters in your posts. IcyPeas Dec 4 #12

AGI Artificial General Intelligence. LLM Large Language Models. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 5 #14

Thank you IcyPeas Dec 5 #16