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So I am a blind human. I cannot drive a car or use a camera/robot to do housework (I need my hands to see!) Am I not a general intelligence?



I replied this to another comment, but I'll put it here: your limitation is physical. You have standard human intelligence, but you're lacking a certain physical input (vision). As a generally intelligent being, you will compensate for the lack of vision by using other senses.

That's different to AIs, which we can hook up to all kinds of inputs: cameras, radar, lidar, car controls, etc. For the AI the lack of input is not the limitation. It's whether they can do anything with an arbitrary input/control, like a servo motor controlling a steering wheel, for example.

To look at it another way, if an AI can operate a robot body by vision, then we suddenly removed the vision input and replaced it with a sense of touch and hearing, would the AI be able to compensate? If it's an AGI, then it should be able to. A human can.

On the other hand, I wonder if we humans are really as "generally intelligent" as we like to think. Humans struggle to learn new languages as adults, for example (something I can personally attest to, having moved to Asia as an adult). So, really, are human beings a good standard by which to judge an AI as AGI?




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