A.G.I. Artificial General Intelligence

[Harpo]

We’ve been discussing A.I. hereabouts for a couple of years now, in threads in increasing numbers

A.I. (general thread for any AI-related topics)

We have several threads on the forum relating to AI technology in various ways. It’s time for a single general thread for all of it together. Here are some related threads https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/582717/ https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/583564/...

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But that’s mostly just about what is termed Narrow A.I. which just does one thing - it can chat, it can make art, or music, or videos, or attempt to write stories, etc etc.

At some time in the future, maybe years, maybe decades, maybe not this century, there will be Artificial General Intelligence (A.G.I.) which....
...perhaps the Wikipedia page can tell it better than I can

Artificial general intelligence - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The future, pop kids, is bright.

 

[Lise De Saint-Romain]

Ha, but the artificial general intelligence is much more nearer.

I'm sure that before the end of the twenties (the raging twenties !) we'll have something similar to AGI. In fact, AI systems have already super-human capabilities since they can give suitable (and interesting) advices to their users, and there are millions of them at the same time.
Don't you think ?

 

[Harpo]

Not yet, no. That’s just A.I. as usual.

A.G. I. will be several steps above and beyond.

For comparison with older technology, think of current A.I. being akin to an abacus, or papyrus boat, or Edison’s recordings

 

[Robert Zwilling]

The first problem is that the human brain is a biological quantum computer which easily operates at the molecular level at room temperature. It does logic, storage, communications, and computations with an equally designed I/O system. Copying that is going to take a long time. What we have now are very crude copies of the human thought process. While room temperature quantum computers are now a real possibility due to advances in magnet construction. The effect only lasts 100 nanoseconds for now. Experimental connections using magnets are are being tested in India.

Asking google if human brains are quantum computers and you get a literal answer, "The human brain is unlikely to be a quantum computer because it doesn't have the necessary properties for neural information processing, and there are physical obstacles to implementing quantum computation in organic systems. Quantum computers use qubits, which can exist in multiple states at once, allowing them to perform multiple calculations simultaneously. However, the brain's cells communicate with each other through electrochemical signals.

"it doesn't have the necessary properties for neural information processing" is an odd observation.

Ask google if human brains are molecular computers and you get a much more positive answer, "Scientists have confirmed that human brains are naturally wired to perform advanced calculations, much like a high-powered computer, to make sense of the world through a process known as Bayesian inference."

The big thing about quantum computers is that they are able to use yes, no, or maybe to perform decision making processes. Maybe and what if are probably two of the most powerful forces driving human thinking. Our programing is light years ahead of anything being contemplated at this point in time, which could be a very long time. Holding conflicting views at the same time is no problems for human minds.

AI used as a single job performer is nothing more than a dumb program, it does a specific job as it is programed to do. The only gray area is how it uses the feedback it gets, and that is limited to only what is being fed back to the program by whatever sensors it has to monitor the work being done.

I mention human brains to ward off any comments which might arise from just saying brains, which would include animals, which I do include in this description of organic thinking.

 

[Finch]

My first computer was a ZX 80 . Computer are now , in comparison , incredibly fast and can access massive data storage. But computers are no more intelligent now than then . Computer will always be lacking , ambition, motivation, and the ability to have an erection , brought on by sight of a nude woman . Eventually, computers may become sentient , but in ways humans will not understand .

 

[Harpo]

Let’s look at the wider longterm -

19th Century: Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine
20th Century: Turing Machine, IBM, early robots & internet, etc.
21st century: Current AI, CGI in films, Boston Dynamics robots, plus whatever else is coming next
22nd Century: A.G.I in whatever forms it will take. (Yes it might be sooner, but it might not)

That’s the scale I’m talking about, it’s isn’t just “the next big thing”, it’s probably several things further along.

 

[Harpo]

ai-2027

https://ai-2027.com/

 

[Robert Zwilling]

A neat story, but with current technology that curve is a flat line for intelligence. It does show the rate at which white collar jobs will be replaced by automatic routines. I think the big question is who will end up with the best manufacturing capabilities.