In an op-ed for the Financial Times, AI mega-investor Ian Hogarth recalled a recent anecdote in which a machine learning researcher with whom he was acquainted told him that “from now onwards,” we are on the brink of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI)
Researchers say a lot when talking to rich idiots willing to sink a lot of money into you on wild expectations of Sci-Fi magic.
“A three-letter acronym doesn’t capture the enormity of what AGI would represent, so I will refer to it as what is: God-like AI,” Hogarth declared. “A superintelligent computer that learns and develops autonomously, that understands its environment without the need for supervision and that can transform the world around it.”
The only question I have is whether Hogarth is a grifter or believing the hype himself.
Can you imagine AI matched with the Metaverse? What a crazy place that would be!
So keeping the AIs locked up in a controlled illusion separate from the real world? Well, that would be pointless and a waste of resources, but certainly, it would not lead to whatever stupid hysteric doomsday scenario you are about to postulate. The opposite, in fact.
Hang on, it’s coming.
Actually, if I remember correctly, even Suckerberg himself seems to have abandoned that stupid “metaverse” nonsense.
This fallen world may reject the doctrinal teachings in your King James Bible, but they are more than ready to worship an AI god.
I certainly am not. Why the hell would I?