That's part of the problem though, isn't it? We still don't really understand how human intelligence works. We don't know how we learn. We don't even know where or how memories are stored.
We have ideas about how it works, sure. We know a bit about how the basics of the brain works and we know some correlations of what areas of the brain electrically light up in various conditions, but that's about the extent of it.
Its hard to really create an artificial version of something without pretty well understanding the real thing. In the meantime, brute forcing it is probably the best (and most common) approach.
Is it really the best approach though if we sink all this capital into it if it can never achieve AGI? It’s wildly expensive and if it doesn’t achieve all the lofty promises, it will be a large waste of resources IMO. I do think LLMs have use cases, but when I look at the current AI hype, the spend doesn’t match up with the returns. I think AI could achieve this, but not with a brute force like approach.
There's still even a more fundamental question before getting there, how are we defining AGI?
OpenAI defines it based on the economic value of output relative to humans. Historically it had a much less financially arrived definition and general expectation.
It's still important though, they are the ones many are expecting to lead the industry (whether that's an accurate expectation is surely up for debate).
Yes for sure AI or even basic computing prior to that has done wonders, chess being one example. Simply removing some of the issues with humans - inconsistency, errors due to mood or form etc.
I agree this approach is only viable one but I do hope the other way is also being tried. Who knows there may be a breakthrough. Like they try to create life from basic chemicals present in nature.
We have ideas about how it works, sure. We know a bit about how the basics of the brain works and we know some correlations of what areas of the brain electrically light up in various conditions, but that's about the extent of it.
Its hard to really create an artificial version of something without pretty well understanding the real thing. In the meantime, brute forcing it is probably the best (and most common) approach.