I guess what I’m calling ‘true AI’ is not unlike the stated goal of general intelligence or AGI. As opposed to narrow AI (also called weak AI), true AI is what the average sci-fi fan thinks of as AI (movies such as ‘Ex Machina’, ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ or ‘Zoe’) who are seemingly conscious, exercise free will and demonstrate human-like cognitive degrees of freedom.
With recent breakthroughs it may be useful to separate those terms as we may have AGI soon but it will still be narrow in a lot of ways. True AI is still far off, in my opinion. I don’t think it’ll emerge directly from large language models but more likely from a new substrate that’s more dynamic than the current computer chips, circuit boards, semiconductors etc. The invention/discovery of that new substrate will be the biggest bottleneck to true AI.
I guess what I’m calling ‘true AI’ is not unlike the stated goal of general intelligence or AGI. As opposed to narrow AI (also called weak AI), true AI is what the average sci-fi fan thinks of as AI (movies such as ‘Ex Machina’, ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ or ‘Zoe’) who are seemingly conscious, exercise free will and demonstrate human-like cognitive degrees of freedom.
With recent breakthroughs it may be useful to separate those terms as we may have AGI soon but it will still be narrow in a lot of ways. True AI is still far off, in my opinion. I don’t think it’ll emerge directly from large language models but more likely from a new substrate that’s more dynamic than the current computer chips, circuit boards, semiconductors etc. The invention/discovery of that new substrate will be the biggest bottleneck to true AI.