| ▲ | TheOtherHobbes 3 days ago | |
His whole shtick for nine years has been touting impending AGI. January this year. "We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it." https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections But no! The goal is now ASI. Even though AGI hasn't been achieved - in the sense of being to match the best of human intelligence at abstraction, formalisation, and basic letter counting - the plan is to leapfrog far beyond genius. "We are beginning to turn our aim beyond that, to superintelligence in the true sense of the word." Meanwhile what we have is an idiot savant product that's sometimes useful but always easily confused, is somewhat dishonest and manipulative, lacks genuine empathy and insight - although it can fake a passable version of them - and even with all of those flaws is being sold as the perfect replacement for all those superfluous and annoying human employees no CEO wants to have to deal with. Not a bicycle - or a sports car - for the mind, but an autonomous navigation system that handles most short journeys without major damage, but otherwise crashes a lot and runs people over. | ||
| ▲ | Maxious 3 days ago | parent [-] | |
The compromising of the initial "Open" in OpenAI was also justified because of... ding ding ding AGI > We spent a lot of time trying to envision a plausible path to AGI. In early 2017, we came to the realization that building AGI will require vast quantities of compute. We began calculating how much compute an AGI might plausibly require. We all understood we were going to need a lot more capital to succeed at our mission—billions of dollars per year, which was far more than any of us, especially Elon, thought we’d be able to raise as the non-profit. | ||