Screencap: Unlike a calculator that can solve a limited number of operations, AGI can generalize, learn and comprehend.

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   Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 16:42:19 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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   Also, it's kind of hilarious (lolsob) that OpenAI is burning enormous amounts of energy to take machines designed to perform calculations precisely to make them output text that mimics imprecisely the performance of calculations ... and then deciding that *that* is intelligent. 16/

   But here is where the reporting really goes off the rails. AGI is not a thing. It doesn't exist. Therefore, it can't do anything, no matter what the AI cultists say. 17/