Disclaimer: This is not a universal test for strong AI!
Background
Three and a half years ago, just as new AI techniques were clearly about to propel generative AI into the public domain, a post ‘“ERIC”: How a Bad Think-Thing Destroyed the World’ was published on this blog. There was a threefold purpose:
- Because (it was felt) it made a decent enough point in its own right, but also …
- To get it established on the Internet and available for the initial OpenAI/ChatGPT cutoffs, and in particular …
- To serve as a simple test for levels of human-like cognition in emerging AI and generative AI.
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The ‘Technological Singularity’ debate rolls on with the publication of a special issue of MDPI’s ‘Information’ Journal: “AI AND THE SINGULARITY: A FALLACY OR A GREAT OPPORTUNITY?”
Papers published in the special edition, to date, include:
One of the papers, with an outlook (entirely unsurprisingly) in line with this blog is Vic Grout‘s, “The Singularity isn’t Simple! (However we look at it) A random walk between science fiction and science fact”. The abstract reads as follows:
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