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jlowe212 t1_jee2ls3 wrote

ASI doesn't necessarily mean God level entity. Just a human level with a faster clock speed is enough. It's possible that there might not even exist a level of intelligence so far beyond humans we wouldn't even recognize it. There may be no such intelligence that will ever understand quantum gravity for example. The universe might have limits beyond which no intelligence contained within it can possibly break through. We might not be far from those limits now, and an ASI would just hit those ceilings much faster than we would have otherwise.

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DarkCeldori t1_jee3q8l wrote

Its not only that it is conceivable future gpts will have knowledge of all written text and skills of all domains. Imagine it knows all programming languages and all human languages, and it also knows everything thats ever been written. Imagine it can control robots and perform any work from lawyer to plumber. Imagine it can get perfect scores on IQ tests. That is superhuman. No human can attain beyond human performance in all professions and languages and be able to ace the tests for all professions.

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paulyivgotsomething t1_jeelbum wrote

Language is just a symbolic representation of the things our senses perceive, thoughts, feelings, etc. If we allowed a GPT to connect directly with the environment there would be all the data that is and it would remove our interpretation of the data. Let it collect data through sensors and follow the cause and effect of the natural environment first hand. Let it develop its own theories based on that data. That might push it past the limitation of working with data and language created and filtered by us. Then we might get different theories and be shown different connections. Those theories may describe the natural world better than our own. Then we may say "this thing is smarter than us"

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