It seems like a lot of professionals are thinking we will reach AGI within my lifetime. Some credible sources say within 5 years but who knows.
Either way I suspect it is inevitable. Who knows what may follow. Infinite wealth gap growth, mass job loss, post-work reforms, I’m not sure.
A bunch of questions bounce around in my head, examples may be:
- Will private property rights be honored in said future?
- Could Amish communities still exist?
- Is it something we can prepare for as individuals?
I figured it is important to talk about seeing as it will likely occur in my lifetime and many of yours.
Edit: linked AGI wikipedia
We are a LOT farther away than 5 years. What you see right now is a lot of hype from venture capitalists over chatbots.
I think any real AGI will have to have some kind of reasoning ability, and I don’t see any sign of that in current AI.
Certainly, some interesting developments have happened, and we’ve realized our old models/thinking about progress towards AGI needed improvement… and that’s real. I think there’s a serious conversation to be had about what AGI would be, and how we can know we’re approaching it, and when it has arrived.
But anybody telling you it is close either has something to sell you, or has themselves bought it.
protestantism for techbros. Boring. No machine will come and save you, just go to therapy instead.
Also the future is built, not predicted.
That at the begining, I thought the principle was to make computer smarter and smarter so that they can reach the level of human brain. But it’s seems they just try to make people dumber and dumber to reach level of current AI.
I don’t think AGI will exist soon, but if it gets made, they will try to give it human rights.
Never allow them to do this. They will try this to take away people’s rights, just like with corporate personhood. All stories with talking robots are bullshit, the “robots” in there are just mechanical humans, not AGI.
Most of us have no idea what that is, might be good to link something.
