I think this is a hard kick below the belt for anyone trying to develop AGI using current computer science.
Current AIs only really generate - no, regenerate text based on their training data. They are only as smart as other data available. Even when an AI "thinks", it's only really still processing existing data rather than making a genuinely new conclusion. It's the best text processor ever created - but it's still just a text processor at its core. And that won't change without more hard computer science being performed by humans.
So yeah, I think we're starting to hit the upper limits of what we can do with Transformers technology. I'd be very surprised if someone achieved "AGI" with current tech. And, if it did get achieved, I wouldn't consider it "production ready" until it didn't need a nuclear reactor to power it.
Absolutely. All the talk around AGI being some barrier through which unheard of glories can be unlocked sound very much like "perpetual motion machine" talk.
I think this is a hard kick below the belt for anyone trying to develop AGI using current computer science.
Current AIs only really generate - no, regenerate text based on their training data. They are only as smart as other data available. Even when an AI "thinks", it's only really still processing existing data rather than making a genuinely new conclusion. It's the best text processor ever created - but it's still just a text processor at its core. And that won't change without more hard computer science being performed by humans.
So yeah, I think we're starting to hit the upper limits of what we can do with Transformers technology. I'd be very surprised if someone achieved "AGI" with current tech. And, if it did get achieved, I wouldn't consider it "production ready" until it didn't need a nuclear reactor to power it.