Comment by viking123
25 days ago
We are decades if not hundreds of years away from any real AGI. The AGI is for many tech people what God is for most people in the world, it's kind of a feel-good thing to believe that in their lifetime they can essentially have this intelligence that can be cloned unlimited times and essentially solve any problem thrown at it and liberate them from aging and death.
I think one day this kind of system will probably exist in some form, I don't see any fundamental reason why not but to believe fraudsters like Amodei and Altman telling you that in 6 months world will possibly end and the AIs will take over, it's just nonsense fed to boomer investors who have 0 clue.
Many crypto scammers have pivoted to AI because there are new useful idiots to scam now that crypto is not doing too hot.
Frankly the whole world is just scam after scam nowadays, they noticed that the Elon Musk strategy of continuously promising something "the next year" actually works so they are all doing it stringing people along.
I don't want to believe you are right. Not that I refuse to...
You could be wrong, hopefully. I'll just remain optimistic.
It's good that critical thinking still exists to keep us all grounded.
Edit: I think you meant to replace AGI with ASI.
What we have now is approaching the ability to solve problems generally with considerable effort but super intelligence is definitely out of reach for the time being.
I find it funny that people would think an AGI would want to solve their problems rather than its own problems, ie going rogue from humanity's perspective.