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Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers @Iris and @olivia at Radboud University and others show new proof that those claims are overblown and unlikely to ever come to fruition. Their findings are published in Computational Brain & Behavior today.

https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/dont-believe-the-hype-agi-is-far-from-inevitable

Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes show new proof that those claims are overblown.

Sep 29, 2024 at 6:17pmWeb
Show threadYour Autistic Life FR/EN/ESSep 29, 2024

Checks out... I think AI has been on the verge of surpassing the human brain since the 1960s.

@Iris
@olivia

Show threadTodd HorowitzOct 18, 2024
@yourautisticlife @Iris @olivia ... and always will be!
Show threadSérgio MachadoSep 29, 2024
@Iris @olivia AI are here since 50s with Turing time to time since then we have hyper hype about it.
Current AI is a very big Data Mining with heavy cpu power without any concern regarding privacy…
Next hype will be with “AI” with quantum computer ;)
Show threadOlivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSep 29, 2024
@pasmac @Iris ha I feel that one comes and goes too
Show threadDoctor LURKSep 29, 2024

@Iris @olivia yeah, there are continents between "box that assembles grammatically plausible text strings from a large data set" and "self-aware machine that can think and draw conclusions independently of human input." Planets, even.

It's wild to me how many people have been snookered by what basically boils down to another Mechanical Turk illusion.

Show threadJustin D Kruger (he/him)Sep 29, 2024

@Iris @olivia I think most are conflating capabilities with intelligence.

Contemporary LLMs are immensely powerful semantic processors. However I don’t feel like they are very good at solving new problems.

They seem to know the definition of words and symbols with a billion words, but can’t always see the big picture.

Show threadspmatich vk3spm Sep 30, 2024
@Iris @olivia all of human scientific endeavour cannot define what consciousness is, let alone intelligence, which is a property of consciousness. So anyone that claims they have made a machine that surpasses human intelligence can only talking to the ignorant. To wit, a fool and their money are soon parted.
Show threadTimSep 30, 2024
@Iris @Iris @olivia “But even if we give the AGI-engineer every advantage, every benefit of the doubt, there is no conceivable method of achieving what big tech companies promise.”
Tech bros will just read this as a challenge.
Show threadErik JonkerSep 30, 2024
@Iris @olivia ...the AGI debate is some kind of smokescreen, the risks and impact of AI are still enormous, not in the far future, regardless whether we ever reach AGI or not.
Show threadLRSep 30, 2024
@Iris @olivia replies be like "reading articles is dull. posting personal takes is fun!"
Show threadColin RowatSep 30, 2024
@Iris @olivia from the linked URL, I couldn't understand the argument. Yes, cognition is hard; yes, LLMs aren't there. But I didn't see an argument that silicon can't do what carbon can.
Show threadEric LawtonOct 1, 2024

@Iris

The plan isn't to make “AI” smarter than we are now. As you say, it can't be done.

It's to make us so reliant on machine-generated content that we fail to use our own intelligence.

@olivia @adub

Show threadWendy (prev Jason) AOct 2, 2024
@Iris @Iris @olivia the fundamental issue claims of AI impossibility face is that people exist. So they have to explain why AI can’t take that approach. They fail to explain that so…
Show threadIris van Rooij 💭Oct 2, 2024
@norgralin @olivia our paper explains exactly that
Show threadartfulrobotOct 6, 2024

@Iris @olivia

"If a company pops up claiming to have a machine that, when you press a button, it creates world peace, then you’d distrust it too. So why are we so quick to believe the promises of big tech who are driven by profit? We want to help build a better understanding of AI systems, so that everyone can bring a critical eye to promises of the tech industry."

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