"For decades, experts have debated how to tell when machines cross into true intelligence. On Wednesday in Berlin, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and British physicist David Deutsch agreed on a new benchmark: If an AI could crack quantum gravity - and explain why - that might be enough to call it human-level smart. Altman stopped at Axel Springer's headquarters on Wednesday to meet with tech leaders and collect an award."
"Altman, the builder betting on scale and iteration to achieve AGI, was suddenly face-to-face with on-screen Deutsch, the British physicist known as the father of quantum computing and a philosopher of science who doubts that brute-force training will ever produce true minds. The exchange played less like a debate than a meeting of the mutual admiration society. Deutsch said he once thought no computer could hold an open-ended conversation without being an AGI."
A proposed benchmark for artificial general intelligence is the ability to derive and explain quantum gravity. Current large language models can converse fluently because they are trained on vast datasets, yet they lack demonstrated capacity to create new scientific knowledge or genuine intuition. Genuine intelligence is framed as identifying problems, inventing solutions, testing them, and iteratively improving those solutions. One perspective emphasizes scale and iterative training as a path to AGI. Another perspective argues that brute-force training alone may not generate the explanatory, creative knowledge that defines true intelligence.
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