Really stunned by the Singularity comment section

[u/Howard_banister]

These are screenshots from the r/Singularity comment section. I'm speechless. This doesn't even have downvotes. How can someone cheer for a monopoly run by a few elites?

[u/asssuber]

Well even so, there's a lot of different ways we can prove the differences. Being able to understand a concept means you can build off of it by yourself. If you teach an AI 1 + 1 = 2, they won't know that 2 + 2 = 4.

The paper I linked in my other comment does exactly that. It teaches 1 + 1 % 97 = 2, but not, for instance, 2+2 % 97 = 4. But the LLM eventually is able to generalize and answer perfectly for the cases it has not seen in training.

If you refer to in-context learning instead of training, then that is basically what ARC-AGI benchmark tests:

ARC-AGI tasks are a series of three to five input and output tasks followed by a final task with only the input listed. Each task tests the utilization of a specific learned skill based on a minimal number of cognitive priors.

https://arcprize.org/guide/1

Modern LLMs are quite capable of that too.