(Crossposted from twitter for easier linking.) (Intended for a broad audience—experts already know all this.)

When I talk about future “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI), what am I talking about? Here's a handy diagram and FAQ:

“But GPT-4 can’t do any of those things.” Indeed it cannot—hence the word “future”!

“That will never happen because nobody wants AIs that are like that.” For one thing, imagine an AI where you can give it seed capital and ask it to go found a new company, and it does so, just as skillfully as Earth's most competent and experienced remote-only human CEO. And you can repeat this millions of times in parallel with millions of copies of this AI, and each copy costs $0.10/hour to run. You think nobody wants to have an AI that can do that? Really?? And also, just look around. Plenty of AI researchers and companies are trying [...]

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First published:
March 11th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uxzDLD4WsiyrBjnPw/artificial-general-intelligence-an-extremely-brief-faq

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“‘Artificial General Intelligence’: an extremely brief FAQ” by Steven Byrnes

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