General AI
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Pineau: Frontier problems for narrow and general AI are fundamentally similar
“Whether you pick this path of building AI technology to solve these shorter term problems, or you take an approach that, that is more geared towards general AI. Right now, where we stand, the types of problems that we have to solve are very similar. This notio…”
Seth: The true scientific value of AGI is understanding human nature
“That for me is the sort of scientific Value of general AI. It's shedding light on what it means to be human.”
Evans: Tech may never achieve full vehicle autonomy, mirroring general AI
“It may be that we never get full autonomy, and full autonomy is a bit like general AI in that, you know, this is a joke in AI that, you know, AI is anything that doesn't work yet, because as soon as it works, people say that's not AI, that's just a database.”
Evans: Disparate telemetry datasets cannot be combined to produce general AI
“Siemens has lots of telemetry data on wind turbines, and General Electric has lots of data, telemetry data on aircraft engines, and Transport for London has lots of touch-in, touch-out data on Oyster cards, and those are all different things, and you can't kin…”
Chen: AI field lacks a consistent research agenda to reach AGI
“We don't really have a consistent research agenda that will get us to general AI, and as a result, I'm not too worried about the super AI, quite yet.”
Naval: Humanity is no closer to general AI than 20 years ago
“We are no closer to creating a general AI. I think that we were 20 years ago.”
Ben Medlock predicted physical keyboards would dominate programming until AGI arrives
“I think for things like programming, it's really hard to see it changing significantly. And it's sort of almost It's very difficult to imagine what would actually do a much better job of this outside of a general AI that's better at programming than we are. So…”