• lunarul@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    That would be a danger if real AI existed. We are very far away from that and what is being called “AI” today (which is advanced ML) is not the path to actual AI. So don’t worry, we’re not heading for the singularity.

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        https://www.lifewire.com/strong-ai-vs-weak-ai-7508012

        Strong AI, also called artificial general intelligence (AGI), possesses the full range of human capabilities, including talking, reasoning, and emoting. So far, strong AI examples exist in sci-fi movies

        Weak AI is easily identified by its limitations, but strong AI remains theoretical since it should have few (if any) limitations.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence

        As of 2023, complete forms of AGI remain speculative.

        Boucher, Philip (March 2019). How artificial intelligence works

        Today’s AI is powerful and useful, but remains far from speculated AGI or ASI.

        https://www.itu.int/en/journal/001/Documents/itu2018-9.pdf

        AGI represents a level of power that remains firmly in the realm of speculative fiction as on date

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          Ah, I understand you now. You don’t believe we’re close to AGI. I don’t know what to tell you. We’re moving at an incredible clip; AGI is the stated goal of the big AI players. Many experts think we are probably just one or two breakthroughs away. You’ve seen the surveys on timelines? Years to decades. Seems wise to think ahead to its implications rather than dismiss its possibility.

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            See the sources above and many more. We don’t need one or two breakthroughs, we need a complete paradigm shift. We don’t even know where to start with for AGI. There’s a bunch of research, but nothing really came out of it yet. Weak AI has made impressive bounds in the past few years, but the only connection between weak and strong AI is the name. Weak AI will not become strong AI as it continues to evolve. The two are completely separate avenues of research. Weak AI is still advanced algorithms. You can’t get AGI with just code. We’ll need a completely new type of hardware for it.