![]() The ability to harness “intelligence”, that utterly nebulous concept that in Wittgensteinian terms can only be defined through usage, and to put it to work much the same way we turned the power of horses into horsepower. So if we want to define what AGI is, we might have to keep being a bit vague. Like, is there a particular size of the training when the network simply just wakes up and goes “hello”? We can make it say so of course, after all Blake Lemoine managed to do so in Google, and Microsoft publicly managed to do it with Sydney, when it apparently wanted to seduce a man away from his wife So there are a bunch of things people wonder about. Like it can think through new situations and make silly jokes like humans, and it can calculate the product of two primes faster than a supercomputer, and most things in the middle. For some it’s like Iron Man, where you get to say “Jarvis, build me a time machine” and Jarvis says “Yes, sir, right away” in an impeccable British accent and then does exactly that.Ī lot of these essentially include imagining that the AI can, basically, combine almost anything any human can and almost anything any computer can. For some it’s like HAL, from 2001 A Space Odyssey, a being which has a mind of its own and is stubborn and refuses to let anyone tamper with its instructions.įor some it's Terminator, without Arnold’s cool glasses or his one-liners you read in the subtitles and laugh out loud. When people talk about AI eventually taking over the world’s GDP or replacing humans, everyone has an idea of what they’re able to do. That’s both the opportunity and the fear about AI. ![]() ![]() Intelligence helped collect, collate, condense, integrate the information about the world, and to use them to craft new futures. Reuter's fortune was made during the Franco-Prussian War as he used his news agency to provide news and information to both sides of the conflict, which made him a valuable asset to both governments. In the physical world, when we figured out how to dig out rocks from under the earth, to use coal and iron and steel, we had an industrial revolution put together with human ingenuity.Įven outside the physical realm, Jay Gould in the gilded age made his fortune because he could communicate with his business partner through telegraph during the time of the American Civil War. You might even claim it drove much of human achievement in the past. ![]()
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