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1. nsagent · 1789580596 · focus · HN ↗

   They are simply looking to steer AI policy discussions. It's basically an in-house think tank. It has all the trappings, especially with ominous prognostications like:

     Today’s AI systems have impressive capabilities and the rapid pace of innovation suggests we’re now approaching artificial general intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain.
   

   Not sure we are anywhere close to all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain... not even a severely lobotomized one.

   1. Eueudhsbsj32 · 1789584337 · focus · HN ↗

      > Not sure we are anywhere close to all the cognitive capabilities of the human brain...

      In which capabilities are AI not already close to or beyond that of a human brain?

      1. idiotsecant · 1789586182 · focus · HN ↗

         The ability to solve general problems previously insoluble using only experiential data and modification to internal world models.

         1. chpatrick · 1789589316 · focus · HN ↗

            They've read a few thousand years of experiential data in text form.

            1. idiotsecant · 1789778815 · focus · HN ↗

               That's not true and its exactly the point - real life data is noisy, difficult to parse, and ultimately often ambiguous. Text is the distilled information. It's significantly easier to distilled text into a likely response than it is to distill into lessons a continuous data stream whose contents are partially controlled by your own actions.

               1. chpatrick · 1789788985 · focus · HN ↗

                  Yeah but we're talking about something that was trained on petabytes of noisy, difficult to parse and ambiguous information.

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