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“Misnaming and Other Issues with OpenAI’s ‘Human Level’ Superintelligence Hierarchy” by Davidmanheim


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Bloomberg reports that OpenAI internally has benchmarks for “Human-Level AI.” They have 5 levels, with the first being the achieved level of having intelligent conversation, to level 2, “[unassisted, PhD-level] Reasoners,” level 3, “Agents,” level 4, systems that can “come up with new innovations,” and finally level 5, “AI that can do the work of… Organizations.”

The levels, in brief, are:

1 - Conversation
2 - Reasoning
3 - Agent
4 - Innovation
5 - Organization

This is being reported secondhand, but given that, there seem to be some major issues with the ideas. Below, I outline two major issues I have with what is being reported.

...but this is Superintelligence 

First, given the levels of capability being discussed, OpenAI's typology is, at least at higher levels, explicitly discussing superintelligence, rather than “Human-Level AI.” To see this, I’ll use Bostrom's admittedly imperfect definitions. He starts by [...]







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Outline:

(00:58) ...but this is Superintelligence

(03:00) Ordering Levels?

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First published:

July 15th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JycQ8dZwAKcgfbWig/misnaming-and-other-issues-with-openai-s-human-level

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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