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I think there's a chance we'll build an AGI within the next few decades. But I doubt we'll understand much better how it works than we understand today's human
by sowbug 9y ago
I think there's a chance we'll build an AGI within the next few decades. But I doubt we'll understand much better how it works than we understand today's human brain.
It will be an enormous advance, of course. It'll probably perform better than humans, it'll probably live indefinitely, there's a chance we'll figure out how to clone it, and we'll have much more ethical latitude to experiment with it. But I'm not sure we'll be able to explain how we built it; rather, the best we'll be able to say is that we helped it happen.
- zaptheimpaler 9y agoAgreed.. the more i think about it the more it seems there may be nothing meaningful to "understand" past a certain point (not to say we are at that point now). If understanding is reducing complexity but the brain turns out to be a huge network, there may be an irreducible complexity to it.
- ThomPete 9y agoIsn't that what Stephen Wolfram talks about in his "New Kind of Science" book.
- sowbug 9y agoPerhaps the AGI will itself be what helps us pierce that veil of complexity, like an ELI5 that can dumb down its own mechanism for mere humans. Just imagine where we'd be today if we'd had a clone of Richard Feynman in every high-school math and physics class for the past 40 years.
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- nine_k 9y agoBe that blind watchmaker you want to see in the world!