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Saratustrah t1_ituozcv wrote

Reply to comment by AdditionalPizza in With all the AI breakthroughs and IT advancements the past year, how do people react these days when you try to discuss the nearing automation and AGI revolution? by AdditionalPizza

>humans aren't special when it comes to things like creativity, fixing things, customer service/relations

humans are though. Creativity is a trait that only very few animals have ever shown, while its inherent to every human being in some way. Service-Relations, or rather social relations in any way again are a very human-focused thing - even if a computer could replicate a person well, the other side in any given relation could still want human contact and communication just for being human contact instead.

We ARE special. And have been for thousands of years. And while I believe, that creating an AGI could be possible, it does not exist yet and there is no guarantee it will.

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AdditionalPizza OP t1_itutn3p wrote

Everyone just a few years ago assumed AI would start at the bottom of the pyramid and we would work up to creating human equivalent intelligence. But it seems like the opposite is true, and the basic functions are more difficult to simulate than the "higher" functions reserved for humans. Like creativity, intellect, language, reasoning, etc. Those seem to be easier to do than basic traits like fear, motor skills, and other basic things we think of as less unique to humans.

Humans are special when compared to other biological creatures, but we don't even fully know the intelligence of some other species. We just have the advantage of having evolved with thumbs and the ability to walk upright.

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