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7ECA t1_j55iinr wrote

This statement: 'Many AI researchers believe that solving the language translation problem is the closest thing to producing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)' is complete BS. And look at the org that posted this

We are nowhere near any reasonable definition of singularity. That said, there are many reasons to believe that various forms of AI will rapidly transform our society. Not necessarily for the better

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Deepfriedwithcheese t1_j571qw4 wrote

Communicating would naturally be a massive piece of of singularity. You can be bad at math, not know history and even be illogical (not reason well) but having the ability to translate one’s communication given countless contexts and have a good conversation would be a big win towards singularity or “consciousness”. None of us humans consciously think without language.

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bablakeluke t1_j57mc01 wrote

Except the fundamental requirement of the singularity is an AI that can write a better version of itself. If it does that infinitely then the end result is an AGI that would eclipse anything a human can do. The problem is what we define "better" as, because any small bias could get dramatically amplified into something dangerous.

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