> This idea of surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities
At some point in history we were just "chimp abilities", so the argument would become "it's silly to imagine that something made of chimp abilities could surpass chimp abilities".
I'm with you on this. People in these chains seem to be looking at all the wrong metrics.
Single-mode LLMs are made of human abilities, but we're already going to multi-modal, though with what I would call rather limited interconnections. What does a LLM that takes language and mixes that with sensor data from the real world? You're no longer talking about human abilities, you're going beyond that.
> This idea of surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities
At some point in history we were just "chimp abilities", so the argument would become "it's silly to imagine that something made of chimp abilities could surpass chimp abilities".