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I think capitalistic pressures favor narrow superhuman AI over general AI. I wrote on this two years ago: https://argmax.blog/posts/agi-capitalism/ https://argm
by mxwsn 2y ago
I think capitalistic pressures favor narrow superhuman AI over general AI. I wrote on this two years ago: https://argmax.blog/posts/agi-capitalism/ https://argmax.blog/posts/agi-capitalism/
Since I wrote about this, I would say that OpenAI's directional struggles are some confirmation of my hypothesis.
summary: I believe that AGI is possible but will take multiple unknown breakthroughs on an unknown timeline, but most likely requires long-term concerted effort with much less immediate payoff than pursuing narrow superhuman AI, such that serious efforts at AGI is not incentivized much in capitalism.
- shrimp_emoji 2y agoBut I thought the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligence that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy’s resources. NB: I agree; I think AGI will first be achieved with genetic engineering, which is a path of way lesser resistance than using silicon hardware (which is probably a century plus off at the minimum from being powerful enough to emulate a human brain).