Sorry, but this isn't evidence about the quality of the graduates. If they're just out of school you can't tell whether they're good or bad. I trained an astrologer to be a good programmer in less than a year. (Well, he soon moved into management, but he was capable.) HR hired a different astrologer, who was skilled at C. More skilled in the techniques than I was. But he was in love with macros, and used them everywhere, so nobody else could understand his code. It was the second one that had a high SAT score.

What it tells me is that $15/hour probably isn't enough to pay the rent and buy groceries.

You didn't suggest what solution to apply. (Or, indeed, precisely what you consider the actual problem...there were at least 3 mentioned in the comment chain.)

No. Intelligence cannot define goals, only "sub-goals", i.e. things you need to do in order to move closer to achieving your goal. Intelligence selects means to achieve goals, but it can't define the goals themselves.

Paper strips don't depend on anything to persist.

Get that desk fan out of here!!

You're confusing "intelligence" with "goals". That's like confusing theorems with axioms. You can challenge the theorems. Say, for instance, the the proof is invalid. You can't challenge axioms (within the system). And you can't challenge the goals of the AI. You can challenge the plans it has to achieve them.

A sufficiently superhuman AI would, itself, be a risk, because it would work to achieve whatever it was designed to achieve, and not worry about any costs it wasn't designed to worry about.

Once you approach human intelligence (even as closely as he currently freely available LLMs) you really need to start worrying about the goals the AI is designed to try to achieve.

Specialized superintelligence is quite plausible. We don't have it yet, but close. Few people can do protein folding projections as well as a specialized AI. Just about nobody can out compute a calculator. Etc.

Your general point is quite valid, but I think you don't properly understand it. IIUC, we've got the basis for an AGI, but it needs LOTS of development. And LLMs are only one of the pieces needed, so it's not surprising that they have lots of failure modes. And once you get a real AGI, you've got the basis for super-human intelligence. So aiming directly for "SuperIntelligence!" is the wrong approach. (But if you're after a headline, proclaiming it is a good approach.)

The history of AI is all about modeling human intelligence, just like the models we have in natural sciences. If the model happens to be a very good match with reality, we may sometimes mistake one for the other. OTOH, they may be the same thing for all practical purposes.

I'm not sure if I have any deeper intelligence than a fancy language model. When we say that LLMs don't really understand things, then what exactly do we mean by understanding? In my personal definition, the meaning of something is simply the graph of its associated things. I consider something very meaningful if the graph has a lot of nodes and edges, and this also explains why simple things gain more meaning as we age.

Perhaps he thinks that in his field hallucinations don't matter. Perhaps he's right. I remember a famous elephant that beat the stock market. (I think it was also done with other animals.) Also see "A Random Walk through Wall Street"

I'm all in favor of space travel, but that's not going to solve the social problems on earth, and we don't yet have the ability to run a small self-sufficient stable society in an off-earth environment.

I do support space habitats, but I tend to think of that as a "next century" (or after the singularity) kind of thing.

What a large war does is kill of a large proportion of the most aggressive young males. It's one of the traditional ways the current crop of alpha-male primates keep control.

Nope. They apply everywhere, everywhen. If something is unstable in an environment, it tends to disappear from that environment. If it's stable (by definition) it tends to persist. And the environment is all those things it's interacting with.

Google announced roughly the same thing, on device models for phones a couple weeks ago at their developer conference. The 1b model is fine for basic tasks like turning on lights, checking email, social media notifications etc and runs ok on midrange phone hardware. The 4b model technically runs but it's borderline unusable speed but it can answer questions like "how does a microwave work?" with moderate accuracy at a semi-scientific level which is impressive. I suspect most devices will be able to run a 1b and by the end of the decade most everything will run a 4b model at least at talking speed. There's a concept that all AI processing will be done in the datacenter, I suspect 80%+ of consumer LLM will happen on the device, and more complex tasks will get routed to the cloud. For a lot of end users (high school students, etc) 98%+ of requests will be on-device.

I've seen eight-minute videos interrupted by a five-minute ad block.

As opposed to the literal fascists in the current administration? Because fascists have historically always clamped down on antisemitism.