[Fis] Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence

[Pedro C. Marijuán]

Dear All,

Herewith an interesting piece that I think matches our current session 
on AI (received courtesy from Malcolm Dean).

The brief attachment (hopefully the server won't scrap it??) is very 
rich in further references that may be useful, in particular the Google 
Deep Mind report.

Best --Pedro


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MIT Technology Review, 16 November 2023
*Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general 
intelligence
*/AGI is one of the most disputed concepts in tech. These researchers 
want to fix that.
/By Will Douglas Heaven

AGI, or artificial general intelligence 
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is one of the hottest topics in tech today. It’s also one of the most 
controversial. A big part of the problem is that few people agree on 
what the term even means. Now a team of Google DeepMind researchers has 
put out a paper that cuts through the cross talk with not just one new 
definition for AGI but a whole taxonomy of them 
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In broad terms, AGI typically means artificial intelligence that matches 
(or outmatches) humans on a range of tasks. But specifics about what 
counts as human-like, what tasks, and how many all tend to get waved 
away: AGI is AI, but better.

To come up with the new definition, the Google DeepMind team started 
with prominent existing definitions of AGI and drew out what they 
believe to be their essential common features.

The team also outlines five ascending levels of AGI: emerging (which in 
their view includes cutting-edge chatbots like ChatGPT 
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Bard 
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competent, expert, virtuoso, and superhuman 
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a wide range of tasks better than all humans, including tasks humans 
cannot do at all, such as decoding other people’s thoughts, predicting 
future events, and talking to animals). They note that no level beyond 
emerging AGI has been achieved.

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