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Artificial. General. Intelligence. The ability to solve (even partially or even badly solve) problems drawn from arbitrary problem domains without pretraining on the specific problem class. You can pose any problem of any type using natural language to an LLM and it will attempt a solution. That's literally all the term means.

You (and the rest of the media and many industry figures) are conflating artificial super-intelligence (reference point: humans) with artificial general intelligence (reference point: specialized/narrow GOFAI).

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> conflating artificial super-intelligence (reference point: humans) with artificial general intelligence (reference point: specialized/narrow GOFAI).

So now humans is "super" intelligence? it's nice to move the upper bar so that more stuff can be called "just" intelligence.

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Reference class in this case means not an example but what the comparison is against. Superhuman means better than humans. General intelligence is defined without any reference to human capability levels.
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How can somebody define intelligence without a reference to human capability? Humans are the one judging it.

general intelligence for beavers or a birch forest would be very different than general intelligence for humans...

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Intelligence is problem solving. It can be defined in terms of optimization theory.
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Which is also a uniquely human take...
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I don't think we'll be able to meet, and that's ok since the definition isn't universal. I align more with Demis Hasabis' views on this
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Very valid point, shame it’s buried so deep in the comments’ tree.
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