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We kind of have AGI today, or its equivalent. It's called Mechanical Turk. It's a crowdsourcing marketplace where you can pay people from all over the world to
by bko 4y ago
We kind of have AGI today, or its equivalent. It's called Mechanical Turk. It's a crowdsourcing marketplace where you can pay people from all over the world to do simple tasks that would stump many state-of-the-art AIs today. Or you have other marketplaces like Fivr. I guess AGI would be cheaper (or maybe not!). But I don't think there's anything you can do with AGI that you can't do with cheap labor.
What you can't do with AGI or cheap labor is tell someone "make me a billion dollar business", or "create an app with product market fit". Overall I think people are over-optimistic what AGI can do once its here.
https://www.mturk.com/ https://www.mturk.com/
- sterlind 4y agoI think you're underselling cheap labor. Mechanical Turk is very limited, and not representative. AGI could drive trucks, build houses, mine metals, care for the disabled, plant corn, cook meals, do labwork. AGI solves robotics. We could use very general-purpose robots rather than specialized, brittle, narrowly-useful machines. Right now the bottleneck is mostly software - that's why Atlas isn't useful, it takes too much engineering to program it to do useful things. if it can learn? and doesn't get bored?