> School is not natural. Our whole env is neither. Babies can't survive
A human goes to school to learn.
Humans in general learned based on experience of the world around them. We invented language, no one taught it to us. We learned to make fire, forge tools, cook food, practice medicine, etc on our own.
If I took you and pitched you on an island as an exceptionally young child with no further training, most likely you would die. Even more likely you wouldn't have fire and tools. A high proportion of our behaviors can be traced as a continuous learning chain going back eons.
There's exploration and exploitation. Exploration (discovering fire and learning to create/harness it, inventing language) is slow and expensive. The current focus isn't on replicating human exploration with AI, though, I don't think (though it may become the focus later). Daily stories about AI are mostly mostly about "We got AI to do this thing humans do (sorta)!", which is much more focused on exploiting existing knowledge, and this is true with schoolkids as well, at least to start. Exploitation of existing knowledge is much faster and easier (though still expensive!): load up what we've all learned so far so we can continue to make progress. I think this is what Carmack is referring to. I don't think anyone is saying ChatGPT could discover fire, or cook food.
I am of the opinion that we'll know when we have real AGI because it'll be able to fold my laundry. One can dream.
On the other hand, I'm not so sure an LLM couldn't invent a language, particularly one to use with another AI. It's sci-fi from 1970, but I just rewatched "Colossus: The Forbin Project"[0] recently which features this as a plot point. Really enjoyed it years ago when I first saw it, but it's improved with age (at least for me) now that we are closer to AI.
Humans learn based on human curated data too.
School is not natural. Our whole env is neither. Babies can't survive.
I would even go so far to say that the potential model a LLM would create internally might not be that far away of that of a human.
And segment anything was just announced. The performance of zero shot systems is tremendous.
It's not far fetched to assume that chatgpt combined with segment anything together would allow it to create an even more accurate model of the world.