Artificial Intelligence

I think we need a general thread on the topic. There are some others but they are narrower in scope.

Google claims new Gemini AI 'thinks more carefully'

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Google has released an artificial intelligence (AI) model which it claims has advanced "reasoning capabilities" to "think more carefully" when answering hard questions.

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Gemini was tested on its problem-solving and knowledge in 57 subject areas including maths and humanities.

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Google is making some big claims for its new model, describing it as its "most capable" yet and has suggested it can outperform human experts in a range of intelligence tests. Gemini can both recognise and generate text, images and audio - but is not a product in its own right. Instead it is what it known as a foundational model, meaning it will be integrated into Google's existing tools, including search and Bard.

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[Google] claims the most powerful version of Gemini outperforms OpenAI's platform GPT-4 - which drives ChatGPT - on 30 of the 32 widely-used academic benchmarks. However, a new, more powerful version of the OpenAI software is due to be released next year, with chief executive Sam Altman saying the firm's new products would make its current ones look like "a quaint relative".

So, a number of interesting claims here.
1) The new AI can "outperform human experts in a range of intelligence tests"
2) It can also outperform GPT-4 on 30 out of 32 academic benchmarks
3) It can recognise and generate text, images and audio: not merely a chatbot

Is this, finally "AGI"? (I'm not asking if it's sentient, that's a separate question)

What is AGI (artificial general intelligence)?

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An artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of intelligent agent.[1] If realized, an AGI could learn to accomplish any intellectual task that human beings or animals can perform.[2][3] Alternatively, AGI has been defined as an autonomous system that surpasses human capabilities in the majority of economically valuable tasks.[4][promotion?] Creating AGI is a primary goal of some artificial intelligence research and of companies such as OpenAI,[4] DeepMind, and Anthropic. AGI is a common topic in science fiction and futures studies.

I'll say that it still needs to be demonstrated that it can meet either of those definitions. But even if it could "surpass human capabilities" in just a subset of economically valuable tasks, it would be quite interesting.

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