Comment by Jack Sloan (jack-sloan) on All AGI Safety questions welcome (especially basic ones) [May 2023] · 2023-05-09T03:40:23.966Z · LW · GW

Does current AI technology possess the power to work its way up to AGI? For example, if the world all of the sudden put a permanent halt on all AI advancements and we were left with GPT-4, would it, given an infinite amount of time of use, achieve AGI through RLHF and access to the internet? This assumes that GPT-4 is not already an AGI system.

i.e.: Do AI systems need to forgo changes to their actual architecture to become smarter, or do is it possible that they get (significantly) smarter through simply enough usage?