When will there be AI superintelligence?
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@evan define superintelligence? My first Athlon many years ago could do arithmetic a billion times faster than I could. Every computer and computer program is superhuman in some specific way, or we wouldn’t keep making them
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@evan The planet will die first.
@boz because of all the water and the energy that AI uses?
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@evan
Later... Much later.@beandev explain!
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Explain! What part is impossible?
You don't think it's possible for an entity to be more intelligent than a human?
Or is it not possible for a *constructed* entity to be more intelligent than a human?
Or are *humans* not smart enough to make a constructed entity that is more intelligent than a human?
@evan I don't think that it's possible for a glorified pile of linear algebra to think at all. -
When will there be AI superintelligence?
@evan
The 10th of Neveruary. -
@boz because of all the water and the energy that AI uses?
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@boz because of all the water and the energy that AI uses?
@boz@mastodon.uno @evan@cosocial.ca
Pretty sure they mean like, in general
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When will there be AI superintelligence?
@evan It's impossible to answer this without specific definitions of "AI" and "superintelligence". If AI is something that can write text and draw pictures in a way that is superficially like human output, and superintelligence means that it can do that faster than a human, then we've got it already. If not, then the answer is some time between tomorrow and never, depending on those definitions.
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@beandev explain!
@evan
In the context of "AI = LLM", never. In context of "AI = whatever we will find as technology" we will need decades to have the technology to simulate at least a simple brain (much simpler than a human brain).The reason is that the neural networks that we map in silicon today make up only a fraction of a brain. Countless elements that make up our thinking, our consciousness, and our self-awareness are missing. Even our senses, which are necessary for these, can currently only be represented in a rudimentary way.
Currently, we only emulate knowledge through high speed and parallelization. But we have clear limits in this regard with ressources.
And knowledge is not intelligence. It is also only simulated.
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@boz@mastodon.uno @evan@cosocial.ca
Pretty sure they mean like, in general
@boz@mastodon.uno @evan@cosocial.ca
Turning it to something more concrete: do you think AGI is achievable through the same base approach as current-day LLMs?
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@boz@mastodon.uno @evan@cosocial.ca
Turning it to something more concrete: do you think AGI is achievable through the same base approach as current-day LLMs?
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@boz because of all the water and the energy that AI uses?
@evan Yep
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When will there be AI superintelligence?
@evan for a long time I've been strongly opposed to the possibility of AGI or superintelligence as mostly just simulation that people conflate with what humans do. I still find the arguments pretty unconvincing and usually neglecting a lot of the human experience but the past few years have made me question more the nature of what humans are doing BECAUSE of the patterns that make AI work. I'm intrigued by the regularity and depth of patterns exhibited across the outputs of human thinking.
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@evan
The 10th of Neveruary.@draken why not? Physically impossible?
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@evan It's impossible to answer this without specific definitions of "AI" and "superintelligence". If AI is something that can write text and draw pictures in a way that is superficially like human output, and superintelligence means that it can do that faster than a human, then we've got it already. If not, then the answer is some time between tomorrow and never, depending on those definitions.
@y6nH and yet one of the things that intelligent entities do that makes us interesting is that we can reason about vague concepts.
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@draken why not? Physically impossible?
@evan
Because computer programs are not "intelligent." They've operated under the same Garbage In Garbage Out principle that has governed computers since Babbage and Lovelace built their engines. -
@evan
In the context of "AI = LLM", never. In context of "AI = whatever we will find as technology" we will need decades to have the technology to simulate at least a simple brain (much simpler than a human brain).The reason is that the neural networks that we map in silicon today make up only a fraction of a brain. Countless elements that make up our thinking, our consciousness, and our self-awareness are missing. Even our senses, which are necessary for these, can currently only be represented in a rudimentary way.
Currently, we only emulate knowledge through high speed and parallelization. But we have clear limits in this regard with ressources.
And knowledge is not intelligence. It is also only simulated.
@beandev you should check your math on that argument!
It's not going to take decades to have hardware and software systems with complexity equivalent to the number of neurons (86 billion) or synapses (100 trillion) in a human brain. Frontier models have about 0.5 trillion parameters, roughly equivalent to synapses. That's about 2 OOM from humans.
I think it's very interesting to ask what the difference between true intelligence and simulated intelligence is, though.
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@evan
Because computer programs are not "intelligent." They've operated under the same Garbage In Garbage Out principle that has governed computers since Babbage and Lovelace built their engines.@draken only God can make intelligence, I guess?
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@draken only God can make intelligence, I guess?
@evan
1) Which God?
2) False dichotomy.
