AI will never be smarter than the customers at Waffle House.
In absolute sense I agree, but how many people will become permanently unemployable with the intelligence that AI can develop?
Computers can search thru petabytes of data far faster than humans, they can react to programmed conditions faster than human reaction time.
What they cannot do, and likely never will be able to do, is intuitive reasoning.
Computers are vastly powerful calculators and massive self-searching filing cabinets, which can automatically execute pre-planned and configured actions.
They are not God, or even mere humans.
It will cheat.................
“Artificial Intelligence Unlikely to Ever Catch Up with Human Intelligence”
It is not only unlikely but impossible because humans are made in the image of God.
I’m not sure I agree 100% with this. I believe that it is capable of a more broad base of knowledge than a person. But as far as deep deep thinking? It’s not doing that. Not without some HUGE advances in the hardware that it runs on. You’ll need tremendous amounts of RAM dedicated to a single query in order for it to be able to think deeply.
They are doing pretty well with PGI (Phoney General Intelligence) at the moment since many (many) of the consumer users do not have a very high-level, developed and trainined HGI (Human General Intelligence).
Eventually, the new tech company's won't be able to deliver and the bubble will deflate.
AI is a program that simulates human intelligence. I don’t see any reason why a genius level programming team couldn’t produce a simulation that beats most humans on most IQ tests.
But it would not BE human. It would feel no emotions but it would be able to simulate them. It would have no conscience and no free will. Culpability would mean nothing to it.
But so what! AI is here to stay, and it’s getting more powerful. In a few years it will be commonplace to have a personal assistant robot.
AI is amazing in that it has access to data usual google types searches do not. However, AI cannot think. It cannot discern fact from fiction. It only provides basically averages of all the data it finds. “This seems to be the popular answer, so here it is.”
This may be selectively true. In other words humans may still be better at 10% of certain tasks and AI being better at 90% of tasks (as an example).
We’ve never created a camera that matches the focus ability of the human eye.
First, it’s true that AI is not close to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Most researchers agree on that. But it’s misleading to claim AI is “at a dead end.” On the contrary, current models like GPT-4 and O3 are already outperforming many humans on standardized tests, legal exams, complex coding tasks, and scientific reasoning benchmarks. That’s not hypothetical—it’s documented.
Yes, LLMs don't “understand” like humans do, but they don’t have to. The human brain and AI are radically different systems. One is alive, conscious, and created by God. The other is a tool. But if a tool can help doctors diagnose cancer, write legal briefs, or translate languages instantly, that tool has tremendous value—even if it lacks awareness or a soul.
AI is a prosthetic to the human organism.
Can a pocket calculator add faster than a human? Yes.
Can a wrench exert more torque than a human hand? Yes.
Can AI gather, collate, and present information faster than a human? You bet.
Can AI think? No.
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AI research was “unlikely” or even “very unlikely” to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
I dunno...watch enuff TikTocs and you’d think its surpassed us...
“Artificial Intelligence Unlikely to Ever Catch Up with Human Intelligence”
i agree insofar as AI is considered to be a function of inorganic machinery ...
however, i have no doubt that genetic engineering will be able to awaken much of the dormant potential of the human brain ... probably within the next 100 years if we don’t do something stupid that puts us back into the stone age ...
we already see smatterings of such potential in nature when we see folks like Leonardo Da Vinci, who probably could literally see into the future [i did that once myself], and other singular geniuses of the ages, most recently Einstein, Shockley, Tesla, Jobs, Musk, et. al., as well as the many intelligences throughout the ages in the top 1/10000 percent ...
thus there’s proof that such potential exists, so it’s just a matter of unleashing it for more than just the top 1/10000 percent ... given the minuscule genetic differences between the great apes and homo sapiens, it probably won’t take much of a tweak to accomplish that ...