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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Asi is an actual industry term. I haven't read the article but it is possible they do mean the specific asi rather than agi.

Ed: If you read it they specifically mean asi not agi aka "ai" and they use the term ai and asi correctly throughout.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/sanders-proposes-20-year-prison-sentence-for-ai-devs-who-plow-ahead-with-artificial-superintelligence-plans-penalty-on-par-with-illegally-developing-rogue-nuclear-weapons

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Dude, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. The thing called "AI" today is not AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Perfect so we agree they're not the same terms then regardless of your dramatic starter language.

Also no one said it was, I specifically said they're not the same thing and yes indeed agi is what most companies are after when they say ai.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

yes indeed agi is what most companies are after when they say ai.

In the past, yes. Right now? No. The current models are not attempting to create AGI. They're trying to create a product they can market easily. Honestly, AGI probably would have marketing issues that the current models do not have. The current models are essentially statistical prediction models, not intelligence. They don't reason (despite the industry using that term for marketing). They can't understand something that is totally outside their training data. AGI could.

[–] moonshine69@lemmy.nz 0 points 3 hours ago

It's a bit silly to say they don't reason.

Here's some research where they uncover reasoning circuits in some large transformer models https://github.com/guanzhehong/prop-logic-transformer-circuit ... reasoning has always been just math at th end of the day

And what about alpha go and all that monte carlo tree search stuff, id argue that they can reason far better than humans in these setups

They can't understand something...outside their training data

Idk how easy this is for the the large models, but certainly for classic ML, testing for performance on data outside the training data is 100% part of the development process. (Read up on test/train/validation datasets)

There is also in context learning, which gives rise to zero shot task completion for never trained on tasks.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Right now yes. They're attempting to create the architecture to build an agi. You're being tedious at this point.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The current industry? No, they aren't. Academia? Maybe. The current industry is not out to do something like that. They're thinking about how they can get more investor money next quarter.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Adorable. What are they aiming for exactly? Be specific.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I already said. Whatever makes the most money next quarter. It's not some amazing end goal they're working towards. It's whatever they con convince investors to put money into. Almost always the marketing is not about AGI. The marketing is how they're going to replace workers. You don't need AGI for this.

It's adorable that you think it's something more intelligent than this.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Uh huh no one is doing actual research. Totally plausible.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Asi is an actual industry term

A stupid industry THAT HAS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO FUCKING MAKE MONEY.

Fucking bootlicker

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It existed before Trump. Blinding hate is well... Blinding. Chill out

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Your bootlicking for corporate execs, not Trump, dumbasd

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

No one is bootlicking. You made an assumption while not reading the article and it was wrong. Just accept it and move on bud and stop lashing out like a toddler.