Their argument is not sound, but it is informative paying attention to what they consider "evidence" for AGI. A nice instance of a problem that seems peculiar to AI: it tries to define both its target phenomenon and how well it is doing towards it.
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We assume, as we think Turing would have done, that humans have general intelligence. [...]
A common informal definition of general intelligence, and the starting point of our discussions, is a system that can do almost all cognitive tasks that a human can do.
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So that's: "We assume humans have general intelligence, general intelligence is defined as what humans have."
Their argument is not sound, but it is informative paying attention to what they consider "evidence" for AGI. A nice instance of a problem that seems peculiar to AI: it tries to define both its target phenomenon and how well it is doing towards it.
https://archive.ph/ozUOy
" We assume, as we think Turing would have done, that humans have general intelligence. [...]
A common informal definition of general intelligence, and the starting point of our discussions, is a system that can do almost all cognitive tasks that a human can do. "
So that's: "We assume humans have general intelligence, general intelligence is defined as what humans have."
How many experts did it take to produce this ?