Comment by mrshadowgoose
3 years ago
Without having an understanding of the architecture required for general intelligence, it is impossible to make claims like this. Nobody has this understanding. Literally nobody.
The human brain uses on the order of 10 watts of power and there are almost 8 billion examples of this. So we have hard proof that from a thermodynamic perspective general intelligence is utterly and completely mundane.
We almost certainly already have the computational power required for AGI, but have no idea what a complete working architecture looks like. Figuring that out might take decades, or we might get there significantly quicker. The timespan is simply not knowable ahead of time.
I'm not concerned in the slightest about "the singularity" and non-aligned superintelligences. AGI in the hands of malicious human actors is already a nightmare scenario.
I found out today I don't exactly have Covid brain fog. Covid has triggered my bipolar disorder, so I have flu-like symptoms and hypomania, a combo I've never experienced before so I'm not used to it. It's a bit wild.
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Sorry to hear. Hope you get back to normal soon!
Thanks! I've had Covid for 6 weeks now. Now that I've discovered it's mental effects are real, I can up my meds to help. The strange thing is I was using cannabis to help manage my bipolar, not on a regular basis, but as needed to help make myself aware when I am manic, but now I can't stand cannabis. I can't stand certain foods either. I'm not sure if things ever get back to "normal". It's a Covid adventure.
Take a look at Auto-GPT, it doesn't seem like AGI is far off. I say the AGI in a weak form is already here, it just needs to strengthen.
Tracking problematic actions back to the person that own the AGI will likely not be a difficult task. The owner of an AGI would be held responsible for its actions. The worry is that these actions would happen very quickly. This too can be managed by safety systems, although they may need to be developed more fully in the near future.
Human brains are not built from digital circuits - perhaps they have far more compute than we think.