Are We Any Nearer to AGI?
What should we expect from AGI? We should expect something that starts out with: · An understanding of complex text (legislation, specifications, instructions) with an ability to actively link multiple documents. · Ability to read and make sense of photographs and diagrams · Understanding of reality and moving pictures (videos) · Understanding of simple mathematics, physics and chemistry, with an understanding of how to increase the complexity to match the problem. In other words, the equivalent of a first year university student, with the addition of an ability to link many things – an ability that far exceeds a human’s severely limited ability (about four concepts). We have the problem that the person or persons will have insufficient “bandwidth” to describe the problem in the first place, and will need to be led So are we getting any closer to AGI? Unfortunately, no. Generative AI Generative AI has largely taken over AI, and this
