Yeah, I think that probably if the claim had been “worse than a 9 year old” then I wouldn’t have had much to complain about. I somewhat regret phrasing my original comment as a refutation of the “worse than a 6 year old” and “26 hour” claims, when really I was just using those as a jumping-off point to say some interesting-to-me stuff about how humans also get stuck on trivial obstacles in the same ways that AIs do.
I do feel like it’s a bit cleaner to factor apart Claude’s weaknesses into “memory,” “vision,” and “executive function” rather than bundling those issues together in the way the OP does at times. (Though obviously these are related, especially memory and executive function.) Then I would guess that Claude’s executive function actually isn’t that bad and might even be ≥human level. But it’s hard to say because the memory—especially visual memory—really does seem worse than a 6 year old’s.
I think that probably internet access would help substantially.
Yeah, I think that probably if the claim had been “worse than a 9 year old” then I wouldn’t have had much to complain about. I somewhat regret phrasing my original comment as a refutation of the “worse than a 6 year old” and “26 hour” claims, when really I was just using those as a jumping-off point to say some interesting-to-me stuff about how humans also get stuck on trivial obstacles in the same ways that AIs do.
I do feel like it’s a bit cleaner to factor apart Claude’s weaknesses into “memory,” “vision,” and “executive function” rather than bundling those issues together in the way the OP does at times. (Though obviously these are related, especially memory and executive function.) Then I would guess that Claude’s executive function actually isn’t that bad and might even be ≥human level. But it’s hard to say because the memory—especially visual memory—really does seem worse than a 6 year old’s.
I think that probably internet access would help substantially.