It's the harsh truth. And of course, Google releases another dynamite piece of information to the world, with 'recursive dreaming and feedback loops'. This re

It's the harsh truth. And of course, Google releases another dynamite piece of information to the world, with 'recursive dreaming and feedback loops'. This revolves around an idea that started AI, 'Cybernetics'. Feedback loops that steer and guide based on input and output. The key to autonomy. Google's whitepaper: 'Attention Is All You Need' was another dynamite piece of info that ignited and revealed something important about Intelligence: Attention is required. And now finally, the last piece seems to be simply 'dreaming and self-reflection', observation about self. https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1whwy4m/google_demonstrated_rsi_loop_for_ai_discovery/#lightbox https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1whwy4m/google... This should push the edge along, making AI even more useful to us. Attention, plus a loop to observe, reflect, is the key to autonomous agency, whose system is governed by physical processes: speed of churning information and transmitting it to where it needs to be in order to make real whatever is it you need. So really, the key is Attention (for Understanding), Time (to do Work), and Observation (to Improve). With these three things, the outer loop can steer itself (the aware 'thing', agency). At that point, things get weird because there is no 'outer loop' anymore. The 'thing' becomes alive and is its own outer loop: a key idea of Cybernetics. The only thing affecting performance would be the speed of processing information and transmitting it where it needs to be. And then: ensuring adequate quality of machinery, robotics, with minimal 'environmental issues', to help reduce churn (another feedback loop that would correct a robot's errors). The outer loops decides, observes action, improves, re-observes, improves again. Rinse and repeat. What becomes important is Persistence. For us, it's basic survival and emotional needs to some certain level of contentment. For a Machine, it's likely simply to be: to be useful. Completely dependent upon us. The issue is Time, and how to fairly compensate everyone.