About whether one AI model could be trained both to write plays and drive cars.
Has this happened?
Yes 34 (26%)Not sure 31 (23%)No 68 (51%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether one AI model could be trained both to write plays and drive cars.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
It's not silly, it is in fact a clear necessity to have both of these for something to be even close to AGI. And you additionally need it trained on many other tasks - if you believe that each task requires additional parameters and additional training data, then it becomes very clear that we are nowhere near to a general intelligence system; and it should also be pretty clear that this will not scale to 100 tasks with anything similar to the current hardware and training algorithms.