Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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The entire business model of AI companies is that it makes mistakes so you have to keep using it to fix the mistakes it creates (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by jaykrown@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

AI and AGI are not synonymous terms. We've had AI since 1956. General intelligence means human-level intelligence. When an AI system can do any task as well as or better than humans can, it's by definition generally intelligent.

We're not changing the definitions. People thought that chess is so hard that once an AI system can play chess it has to be as intelligent as humans. That just turned out to be a false assumption. A system can be superhuman at playing chess but that ability doesn't need to translate to any other field.

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[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 1 point 4 months ago

Sounds like changing definitions to me.

But it's not. It's a hypothesis that was proven incorrect by running the experiment.

That’s translatable to other fields

I didn't say it doesn't ever translate to other fields. I said that it doesn't need to. That's the difference between narrow and general intelligence. You can be superhuman at X but have zero clue how to do Y. It's still intelligence but it's not general or "human level"