Trollish comment above but I do wonder about this. I always hear people who think ‘g’ is bullshit giving some form of this argument:
“AI can’t even x, how would you expect it to ever possibly do y?”
It’s like saying:
“How could a baby, which can not even tie its own shoes, spell a simple word, or fill a cup with water, ever possibly grow up to write a book, manage a corporation, or formulate a strategy for fighting a war? Impossible!”
It’s almost as if they think babies can’t learn. The AI is not a baby though, they say. Yeah, it’s not. But it’s a constantly learning body of work that is not regressing and not slowing down. Why would it not get to ‘general’ eventually?
“AI can’t even x, how would you expect it to ever possibly do y?”
It’s like saying:
“How could a baby, which can not even tie its own shoes, spell a simple word, or fill a cup with water, ever possibly grow up to write a book, manage a corporation, or formulate a strategy for fighting a war? Impossible!”
It’s almost as if they think babies can’t learn. The AI is not a baby though, they say. Yeah, it’s not. But it’s a constantly learning body of work that is not regressing and not slowing down. Why would it not get to ‘general’ eventually?