TERENCE TAO DOUBTS THAT ANYTHING RESEMBLING GENUINE "ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE" IS WITHIN REACH OF CURRENT AI TOOLS

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While 'artificial general intelligence' may be out of reach, 'artificial general cleverness' is becoming a reality in many ways. General cleverness is the ability to solve broad classes of complex problems via somewhat ad hoc means. While this doesn't qualify as true intelligence, it can result in a non-trivial success rate in a wide spectrum of tasks. Viewing the current generation of tools as a generator of clever thoughts and outputs may be a more productive perspective when trying to use them to solve difficult problems.