An AI that understood basic math would make zero errors on a math test.
Do humans that understand basic math make zero errors on math tests? I don’t think that’s the case. Part of human intelligence involves making all sorts of random errors.
If you think this is a major current problem, how certain are you that a scaled-up Gato won’t be able to do all math at the level of a high school student?
Errors from transposing or misreading numbers, placing the decimal in the wrong location, etc. The machine mind has a “perfect cache” to hold numbers, concepts, and steps involved. Math is just the simple example of their ability. Such machine minds will be able to hold every state and federal law in their mind, and could re-draft legislation that is “clean” while porting case law from the old to the new legal references.
Do humans that understand basic math make zero errors on math tests? I don’t think that’s the case. Part of human intelligence involves making all sorts of random errors.
If you think this is a major current problem, how certain are you that a scaled-up Gato won’t be able to do all math at the level of a high school student?
Errors from transposing or misreading numbers, placing the decimal in the wrong location, etc. The machine mind has a “perfect cache” to hold numbers, concepts, and steps involved. Math is just the simple example of their ability. Such machine minds will be able to hold every state and federal law in their mind, and could re-draft legislation that is “clean” while porting case law from the old to the new legal references.
*for an example of current tech getting simple math wrong: https://twitter.com/KordingLab/status/1588625510804119553?s=20&t=lIJcvTaFTLK8ZlgEfT-NfA
It’s part of human intelligence to make errors. Making errors is a sign of human-like intelligence.
You could imagine an AGI that doesn’t make any mistakes, but the presence of errors is no argument against it achieving human-like performance.
It’s interesting that you completely ignored the question about what you believe will be the likely capabilities of near-future technology like Gato.