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As far as AI are concerned, there is no intelligence in them - at all.

As far as understanding what intelligence is - we have a long way to go on that as well.

What these system can do, is process a large quantity of data and then match against a specific set of criteria. The problem is not the computer system but the actions taken by real flesh and blood people who do not question what these systems put out.

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Yeah,and that's the point I was trying to make about right now. But at some point we'll find ourselves in the position of having created general intelligence. Be it smarter than us or not. In the case of this model, it "could accurately simulate how the universe would look if certain parameters were tweaked [...] even though the model had never received any training data where those parameters varied."

This means that it somehow was able to figure something specific out based on data that had nothing to do with it. Whether by accident or because there's a correlation that we haven't yet figured out, this model was able to understand it. And that's amazing and scary at the same time.

> But at some point we'll find ourselves in the position of having created general intelligence

Why do you believe that ?

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