Comment by DiscourseFan
Comment by DiscourseFan 2 months ago
1. Protein folding is not AGI, and its a technology (much like, say, telecommunications), which no human on their own would be able to perform or even expected to.
3. How can an AI (in a general sense) create a model of underlying reality if the humans who create them do not have access to underlying reality but only the forms of its appearance?
1. I didn't say AGI and neither did the person I replied to.
They said AI, I said AI.
But protein folding is also very much a thing humans did by playing games. Literally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit
And Transformers are able to learn to use tools, so even mediocre ones can write and then invoke specialist AI.
3. To reach the quality level I specified, that of "You need a PhD to compete with this", it is only necessary to program the AI to be as capable of learning as a PhD student.
This is the standard AI researchers are aiming for, and what I was writing of.
Can they do that? Dunno, and I hope not. But I've bought some tech shares just in case they actually can, because I doubt I'll be able to keep up if that's the near future.