Ordinary people do these things all the time. There are new companies made every day, new books top the charts every week/month/year, same for music.
People have decent conversations every day. Ordinary people sometimes do have to talk someone out of suicide.
Yes, average humans are not beating the stock market. But the average human is a bit better than you give credit to.
Please consider the context of the question. An artificial intelligence only needs to have the cognitive abilities of a random average human in order to be "AGI".
The average human has never published a bestselling book. A person who has published a bestselling book is an above-average writer. And, therefore, an artificial intelligence capable of writing a bestselling book would be above an average human at the task of writing books. Therefore, somewhere beyond an AGI.
Attempting to redefine AGI to "being better than most humans at most tasks" is moving the goalposts towards artificial superintelligence.
Are you mistaking "average" for the literal average number of people? I am referring to average as in ability. Most authors are pretty average people, sure, the above average ones write war and peace etc. But most books these days are not from these extraordinary people.
Indeed. And there is a wide gap between "being as cognitively capable as the average human" and "doing things that no human can", as you put it. So it is important to be realistic about what things the average human is capable of doing, and writing bestselling books is not one of them. Just as an example.
And in order to describe the capabilities of what is AGI and ASI, it is useful to look at examples of what humans can do at a range of capabilities, with some nuance. It is not black and white.
The fairphone 6 is much better! I've found it to be pretty snappy and the screen quality is nice. Can't speak to the camera quality, but the startup time is not slow.
I think they have a point, you might (and should) evaluate it for each new package you install. But when you do a full system upgrade, are you telling me you'll review every AUR package again?
Most AUR helpers (well, the ones I've used at least, those being yay and pacaur) include the option to show a diff of PKGBUILD (and other provided files) for AUR package upgrades
Well I don't use any of those dirty helpers (now THAT'S crazy talk) so the AUR packages mostly get built on a separate schedule (whether fully manually or in CI) from running pacman -S.
I think only one or two non-mainline packages I depend on that get frequent updates and it matters.
Yes, average humans are not beating the stock market. But the average human is a bit better than you give credit to.
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