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If you use consciousness as a baseline, the intellectual difference between a grade schooler and a PhD is tiny.

This is what I think comparing these bots is like. You can argue that they’re very close. But the delta makes a very big difference for any practical purposes because we’re looking for nuanced capability.



There is a blog post that drives this point home with very good illustrations:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...

Basically, at the point where we have "almost human" level AI, it won't take much to get AI that's beyond human capabilities.




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