1 year ago

How to define artificial general intelligence

T HE IDEA of machines outsmarting humans has long been the subject of science fiction. On March 19th Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, the world’s biggest manufacturer of computer chips and its third most valuable publicly traded company, said he believed today’s models could advance to the point of so-called artificial general intelligence within five years. Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, an AI -research firm, and chief executive of a newly established AI division within Microsoft, believes that what he calls “artificial capable intelligence”—a “modern Turing test”—will have been reached when a model is given $100,000 and turns it into $1m without instruction. In January researchers at DeepMind proposed six levels of AGI, ranked by the proportion of skilled adults that a model can outperform: they say the technology has reached only the lowest level, with AI tools equal to or slightly better than an unskilled human. As part of a lawsuit lodged in February against Open AI, a company he co-founded, Elon Musk is asking a court in California to decide whether the firm’s GPT-4 model shows signs of AGI.

The Economist

Discover Related