Lumifer comments on Musk on AGI Timeframes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: examachine 17 November 2014 02:23:48PM 0 points [-]

We believe we can achieve trans-sapient performance by 2018, he is not that off the mark. But dangers as such, those are highly over-blown, exaggerated, pseudo-scientific fears, as always.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 November 2014 04:20:06PM 6 points [-]

We believe we can achieve trans-sapient performance by 2018

What does "trans-sapient performance" mean?

Comment author: examachine 18 November 2014 03:50:32AM 0 points [-]

Well, achieving better than human performance on a sufficiently wide benchmark. Preparing that benchmark is almost as hard as writing the code, it seems. Of course, any such estimates must be taken with a grain of salt, but I think that conceptually solid AGI projects have a significant chance by that time (including OpenCog), although previously I have argued that neuromorphic approaches are likely to succeed by 2030, latest.

Comment author: Lumifer 18 November 2014 05:29:42AM 2 points [-]

achieving better than human performance on a sufficiently wide benchmark

You understand that you just replaced some words with others without clarifying anything, right? "Sufficiently wide" doesn't mean anything.