I agree about the dialogue between current method skeptics and optimists. It's been this way since the start and it's been productive and fun.
...one pick.. I don't think agi pessimists raise the bar out of bad faith. It's just the nature of observing progress. We discover that an ai can do X, while still struggling with Y.
What's the alternative, conclude gpt is sentient? The bar must be raised, because the bar is supposed to represent human intelligence... and we don't know how that works either.
...one pick.. I don't think agi pessimists raise the bar out of bad faith. It's just the nature of observing progress. We discover that an ai can do X, while still struggling with Y.
What's the alternative, conclude gpt is sentient? The bar must be raised, because the bar is supposed to represent human intelligence... and we don't know how that works either.