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Amazing! Anyone has ideas on how to: 1. Bet on AGI, 2. Encourage AGI? I have a strong belief that it could grow and I’d like to contribute (and join the develo

by kovek 6y ago

Amazing! Anyone has ideas on how to: 1. Bet on AGI, 2. Encourage AGI? I have a strong belief that it could grow and I’d like to contribute (and join the development)

mellosouls 6y ago
It's not obvious this has much to do with AGI in the sense of human level sentience.
- ve55 6y ago
  I think it definitely does. Is this AGI, or even close to it? No. But is it in the direction of AGI, or otherwise some small building block of it, that when worked on for decades, may contribute? Definitely
  - ska 6y ago
    It's still not that obvious. There has been a lot of interesting stuff in this current iteration of "AI", but the overall approach could still end up being a dead end with respect to AGI itself. It's an old discussion, and while a few of the deep learning results are really impressive I don't think any of them have fundamentally changed that discussion, yet.
    - dwaltrip 6y ago
      Even if it is a dead end, that is still valuable knowledge.
      - ska 6y ago
        Of course, but the claim wasn't that it had no value. You can easily handwave that all generated knowledge might be indirectly useful; i think that's fair but also different than the distinction I drew.
- xiphias2 6y ago
  AGI is the main goal of DeepMind. They try to mimic human planning by finding similar strategies to what the human brain does, although of course there's never guarantee that their way is the right way.
xiphias2 6y ago
Buy Alphabet or OpenAI stock. Or even Tesla, which also helps us to get closer to self driving cars. Although I can't comment on whether the trades themselves will give you profit or not, as that's impossible to say at this point :)
- edouard-harris 6y ago
  OpenAI isn't publicly traded, but the terms of Microsoft's investment in them give MSFT exposure to their upside. For a retail investor, buying MSFT is probably the best way to bet on this kind of outcome.

by kovek 6y ago

Amazing! Anyone has ideas on how to: 1. Bet on AGI, 2. Encourage AGI? I have a strong belief that it could grow and I’d like to contribute (and join the development)

mellosouls 6y ago

It's not obvious this has much to do with AGI in the sense of human level sentience.

ve55 6y ago
I think it definitely does. Is this AGI, or even close to it? No. But is it in the direction of AGI, or otherwise some small building block of it, that when worked on for decades, may contribute? Definitely
- ska 6y ago
  It's still not that obvious. There has been a lot of interesting stuff in this current iteration of "AI", but the overall approach could still end up being a dead end with respect to AGI itself. It's an old discussion, and while a few of the deep learning results are really impressive I don't think any of them have fundamentally changed that discussion, yet.
  - dwaltrip 6y ago
    Even if it is a dead end, that is still valuable knowledge.
    - ska 6y ago
      Of course, but the claim wasn't that it had no value. You can easily handwave that all generated knowledge might be indirectly useful; i think that's fair but also different than the distinction I drew.
xiphias2 6y ago
AGI is the main goal of DeepMind. They try to mimic human planning by finding similar strategies to what the human brain does, although of course there's never guarantee that their way is the right way.

xiphias2 6y ago

Buy Alphabet or OpenAI stock. Or even Tesla, which also helps us to get closer to self driving cars. Although I can't comment on whether the trades themselves will give you profit or not, as that's impossible to say at this point :)

edouard-harris 6y ago
OpenAI isn't publicly traded, but the terms of Microsoft's investment in them give MSFT exposure to their upside. For a retail investor, buying MSFT is probably the best way to bet on this kind of outcome.