> Do you genuinely put us absolutely no closer, not a single step closer, to AGI than the Mechanical Turk or the people of 50k BC?
No, don't get me wrong, I absolutely acknowledge that we have made progress and can produce very useful things that are rightfully called machine intelligence! And probably there are things we are figuring out now, that will be relevant and useful even if we someday figure out AGI.
I specifically chose Watt as an example because he also produced a very useful thing that improved the world. And many concepts from that time are still used today, even if we don't have many steam engines anymore.
That he didn't have the concept of fusion is beside the point - we have many examples of cases where we have the concept, but will not be able to achieve it in thousands of years (like Level 2 on the Kardashev scale). And vice versa, where we go from discovering concepts to real world impact in just a few years (like GPTs).
No, don't get me wrong, I absolutely acknowledge that we have made progress and can produce very useful things that are rightfully called machine intelligence! And probably there are things we are figuring out now, that will be relevant and useful even if we someday figure out AGI.
I specifically chose Watt as an example because he also produced a very useful thing that improved the world. And many concepts from that time are still used today, even if we don't have many steam engines anymore.
That he didn't have the concept of fusion is beside the point - we have many examples of cases where we have the concept, but will not be able to achieve it in thousands of years (like Level 2 on the Kardashev scale). And vice versa, where we go from discovering concepts to real world impact in just a few years (like GPTs).