About whether there is evidence of human-level AI coming soon, amid ChatGPT-4o hype.
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Yes 17 (15%)Not sure 22 (20%)No 72 (65%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether there is evidence of human-level AI coming soon, amid ChatGPT-4o hype.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
For me, it depends what is meant by "intelligence".
Even ignoring the people who insist it comes with baggage of consciousness or qualia.
AI can train on millions to billions of examples in a matter of months as transistors outpace synapses by the degree to which marathon runners outpace continental drift… but AI also need to do that well just to get up to the current level.
If AI could learn from as few examples as we require, Tesla would have achieved level 5 driving years ago — but as is, they've got millions of vehicles with years of real world experience and it's still merely "ok", not even "expert".
If we never learn how to make machines learn faster, then we'll have an economy of people whose jobs are essentially "give the machines examples to learn from"… and for some of those jobs, they could spend years providing those examples and still no machine will do as well.