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Most people would probably agree the latest models generalize better than flatworms. Mouse-level intelligence is more challenging and the comparison is unclear.

Flatworms first appeared 800+ million years ago, while mouse lineage diverged from humans only 70-80 million years ago. If our AGI development timeline roughly follows the proportion it took natural evolution, it might be much too late to begin seriously thinking about AGI alignment when we get to mouse-level intelligence. Not to mention that no one knows how long it would take to really understand AGI alignment (much less implementing it in a practical system).

To be more concrete, in what aspects do you think latest models are inferior at generalizing than flatworms or mice, when less known work like “Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction” is also taken into account https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/?



> Most people would probably agree the latest models generalize better than flatworms.

> Flatworms first appeared 800+ million years ago

Surviving for 800 million years seems to me like a pretty good indicator of meaningful generalisation.


Water, rocks, and other minerals have been around much longer than that.

Our concern is not the survivability or adaptability over evolutionary timescale but the capabilities to affect the world in human timescale.




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