Could AI technology really get as good as humans, at everything? There are multiple plausible ways for this to happen. As computing power increases every few years, we can simulate bigger “neural networks”, which get smarter as they grow. A “narrow” AI could get good at AI programming, then program itself to get better at other tasks. Or perhaps some new algorithm or technique is waiting to be discovered, by some random researcher somewhere in the world, that “solves” intelligence itself. With all these paths to general AI, it could happen within our own lifetime. (Adapted from here). (Policymakers)
Could AI technology really get as good as humans, at everything? There are multiple plausible ways for this to happen. As computing power increases every few years, we can simulate bigger “neural networks”, which get smarter as they grow. A “narrow” AI could get good at AI programming, then program itself to get better at other tasks. Or perhaps some new algorithm or technique is waiting to be discovered, by some random researcher somewhere in the world, that “solves” intelligence itself. With all these paths to general AI, it could happen within our own lifetime. (Adapted from here). (Policymakers)