Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

> The child didn't learn algebra on its own either. Aside from Blaise Pascal, most children learned those skills by having experienced humans teach them.

That is them interacting with an environment. We don't go and rewire their brain to make them learn math.

If you made an AI that we can put in a classroom and it learns everything needed to do any white collar job that way then it is an AGI. Of course just like a human different jobs would mean it needs different classes, but just like a human you can still make them learn anything.

> How likely is it that we're going to fire everyone maintaining those models in the next 7.5 years?

If you stop making new models? Zero chance the model will replace such high skill jobs. If not? Then that has nothing to do with whether current models are general intelligences.




Your brain does rewire itself as you learn.

Here's a question for you. If we take a model with open weights - say, LLaMA or Qwen - and give it access to learning materials as well as tools to perform training runs on its weights and dynamically reload those updated weights - would that constitute learning, to you? If not, then why not?


> Here's a question for you. If we take a model with open weights - say, LLaMA or Qwen - and give it access to learning materials as well as tools to perform training runs on its weights and dynamically reload those updated weights - would that constitute learning, to you? If not, then why not?

It does constitute learning, but it wont make it smart since it isn't intelligent about its learning like human brains are.




Consider applying for YC's Summer 2025 batch! Applications are open till May 13

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: