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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20858435

Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes show new proof that those claims are overblown and unlikely to ever come to fruition. Their findings are published in Computational Brain & Behavior today.

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[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

because, having coded them myself, I am under no illusions as to their capabilities. They are not magic. "just" some matrix multiplications that generate a probability distribution for the next token, which is then randomly sampled.

[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You seem to be talking about LLMs now and I'm not. LLMs being a dead end is perfectly compatible with what I just said. We'll just try a different approach next then. Even the fact of realising they're a dead end is yet another step towards AGI.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

yeah, so that means that it's not incremental improvement on what we have that we need. That will get us nowhere. We need a (as yet unknown) completely different approach. Which is the opposite of incremental improvement.

[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

I didn't say we need to improve on what we have. We just need to keep making better technology which we will keep doing unless we destroy ourselves first.

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