Gary Marcus

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Score 83

@emollick We already have that and the situation is likely to remain like that for at least several years, maybe a couple decades

5/18/2024, 7:08:47 PM

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Ethan Mollick

@emollick

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Given that today's AI has a jagged frontier - it is really good at some very hard tasks, but fails at some very basic ones - why is there the assumption that AI would be good at everything all at once?

Jagged "superhuman" performance seems like a likelier near-term than true AGI

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