I agree that coming up with a “promising research direction” AI design would have been a reasonable assignment. However, such a research direction if found wouldn’t provide significant evidence for Nate’s claim that “the pieces to make AGI are already out there and someone just has to put them together”, since such research directions have been found throughout the AI field without correspondingly short AI timelines.
I agree that coming up with a “promising research direction” AI design would have been a reasonable assignment. However, such a research direction if found wouldn’t provide significant evidence for Nate’s claim that “the pieces to make AGI are already out there and someone just has to put them together”, since such research directions have been found throughout the AI field without correspondingly short AI timelines.