Ordinary people do these things all the time. There are new companies made every day, new books top the charts every week/month/year, same for music.
People have decent conversations every day. Ordinary people sometimes do have to talk someone out of suicide.
replyYes, average humans are not beating the stock market. But the average human is a bit better than you give credit to.
Please consider the context of the question. An artificial intelligence only needs to have the cognitive abilities of a random average human in order to be "AGI".
replyThe average human has never published a bestselling book. A person who has published a bestselling book is an above-average writer. And, therefore, an artificial intelligence capable of writing a bestselling book would be above an average human at the task of writing books. Therefore, somewhere beyond an AGI.
Attempting to redefine AGI to "being better than most humans at most tasks" is moving the goalposts towards artificial superintelligence.
I couldn't do any of those, but then ~$10k of education later I was able to accomplish one of those things.
replyI think LLMs are really impressive, but I suspect that we might have overpaid just a bit.
It costs money to train each single human, who is then only productive for a number of years until age takes its toll. Once you have trained one software system, the marginal cost of producing a copy approaches zero. Every subsequent improvement can be broadcasted in a matter of seconds across thousands of data centers. In addition, software does not get sick, age, or die.
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