On Sat, May 22, 2021, 12:25 PM Alan Grimes via AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com> wrote:
> immortal.discover...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am on this list, I am completely sane > > Ha! You think text compression is a useful avenue for reaching AGI! =P My phone tells me what song is playing on the radio. I can point it at a sign in Chinese and it overlays an English translation. It only fails the Turing test by being too smart. And what have we on this list achieved? The key to progress toward AGI seems to be a trillion dollar market cap. Automating human labor, the obvious application, has a $1 quadrillion ROI. But the fact that we still pay people to do work that machines aren't smart enough to do isn't really the right benchmark. AI automation drives wages up, which incitivises more investment in AI. You can make more money designing a burger flipping robot than flipping burgers. Data compression alone doesn't lead to AGI, but it does measure prediction in signals with a high signal to noise ratio, like text. It's less useful for vision and robotics. Thanks to my 15 year experiment, we know that the strongest language prediction algorithms are neural networks running on GPUs, even if they require a million times more compute power than rule based systems. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T95f11a183fb9b6e1-Mab5215e4e1a30767be5ce07c Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
