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1. ilaksh · 1786045740 · focus · HN ↗

   > Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We’re introducing updates to ChatGPT that improve everyday conversations while expanding access for Free users.

   This clearly implies that they believe ChatGPT models are AGI and are now willing to say it out loud.

   Which I think is a fair interpretation of the term. They are general purpose intelligence in that you can get help from them about almost anything. They are not like narrow single purpose AI models.

   I don't think we need that term to mean "can completely emulate a human" or "can do every task any human on earth can do as well as them".

   It also needs to be differentiated from ASI with godlike powers many times greater than human.

   1. kkoncevicius · 1786046942 · focus · HN ↗

      If we could show the current models to someone like Alan Turing, I am sure he would conclude that we have AGI.

      1. stymaar · 1786052958 · focus · HN ↗

         And after half an hour using it he'd just admit that his test was way too simple as these models are still way too dumb

         1. klibertp · 1786056852 · focus · HN ↗

            I think of the Turing test as one of the starting lines, along with image recognition ("a summer break project for a group of graduate students" resisted being solved for decades).

            It is a huge leap. Now we can start talking about "intelligence" at all - we really couldn't before. That we're still hovering barely above the starting line is a separate matter (also worth noting, of course).

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