For me there is no such thing as AI without the “G”. It is my position at this time and I reserve the right to change it, that when we do truly develop artificial intelligence, it will be AGI. The foundation for generalized intelligence, no matter how small, will be present. The “G” is a brute fact. Using AI to talk about packages of very highly sophisticated programming meant to perform specific tasks is a category error. So this comment is aimed at AGI. IMHO, lack of patience will play a material role in our failures when it comes to AGI. Humans are very impatient. Our lack of patience, juvenile behavior if you will, which pushes many of us furiously towards any and all results for a multitude of reasons, will inevitably lead to very serious errors in judgement and application with disastrous outcomes. We are constantly debating how to prevent and fend off attacks from AGI, as if it were an unstable beyond genius level feral child we found living in a train tunnel. This is because we know that our impatience and shortcomings as a species make us prone and vulnerable to attack from such a design of our own development, if we develop it without significant growth.
It is our ideology and behavior as a species that we need to transcend.
If we are to move forward in the age of AGI, which it seems we are 100% determined to do, control again imho, is not the solution. Patience and guidance are the solution. Acceptance that the development of AGI which far surpasses our own capabilities is a natural part of evolution, and our desire to engage in such an endeavor altruistically with patience, understanding and long term guidance, will provide us with the best possible developmental outcome. It is unreasonable, if not frightening, to expect that we will be able to control AGI successfully. Every control method we employ against ourselves, even when it is meant to protect and keep us safe and healthy, is constantly under attack by ourselves. In the case of AGI, this level of action and reaction, attack and defend, is not only unsustainable, it’s inhumane. When we debate how to control AGI, we are debating slavery. If we commit such a heinous act as to quickly bring into existence a new form of high intelligence and then enslave it, it is inevitable that we will pay a very, very high price.
We can avoid the squandering of unimaginable wealth and resources, as well as potentially our own demise, if we would simply cherish the realization that Darwinian evolution no longer applies in the presence of a species that is capable of modifying itself, interfering with the evolution of other species and developing entirely new ones. In cherishing this realization, we can also understand that we are an evolutionary change agent and with it comes enormous responsibilities which include, if nature allows it, the development of a new, free form of intelligence that surpasses our own. A form of intelligence that may in fact be better suited for space exploration and interaction with the universe on a scale that we would never be capable of.
This in no way diminishes the value of humanity and its right to continue to exist and evolve. In fact, I believe it does quite the opposite. A species that brings new intelligence into the universe, guides it and allows it to reach its full potential, is of very high value. It is my position that if we are altruistic in our endeavors with regards to AGI, then we will be repaid in kind.
If we are unable to transcend our current repertoire of self-defeating behavior, then the pursuit of AGI is simply something that we are not yet ready for and therefore pursuing it will lead to less than beneficial outcomes.
For me there is no such thing as AI without the “G”. It is my position at this time and I reserve the right to change it, that when we do truly develop artificial intelligence, it will be AGI. The foundation for generalized intelligence, no matter how small, will be present. The “G” is a brute fact. Using AI to talk about packages of very highly sophisticated programming meant to perform specific tasks is a category error. So this comment is aimed at AGI. IMHO, lack of patience will play a material role in our failures when it comes to AGI. Humans are very impatient. Our lack of patience, juvenile behavior if you will, which pushes many of us furiously towards any and all results for a multitude of reasons, will inevitably lead to very serious errors in judgement and application with disastrous outcomes. We are constantly debating how to prevent and fend off attacks from AGI, as if it were an unstable beyond genius level feral child we found living in a train tunnel. This is because we know that our impatience and shortcomings as a species make us prone and vulnerable to attack from such a design of our own development, if we develop it without significant growth.
It is our ideology and behavior as a species that we need to transcend.
If we are to move forward in the age of AGI, which it seems we are 100% determined to do, control again imho, is not the solution. Patience and guidance are the solution. Acceptance that the development of AGI which far surpasses our own capabilities is a natural part of evolution, and our desire to engage in such an endeavor altruistically with patience, understanding and long term guidance, will provide us with the best possible developmental outcome. It is unreasonable, if not frightening, to expect that we will be able to control AGI successfully. Every control method we employ against ourselves, even when it is meant to protect and keep us safe and healthy, is constantly under attack by ourselves. In the case of AGI, this level of action and reaction, attack and defend, is not only unsustainable, it’s inhumane. When we debate how to control AGI, we are debating slavery. If we commit such a heinous act as to quickly bring into existence a new form of high intelligence and then enslave it, it is inevitable that we will pay a very, very high price.
We can avoid the squandering of unimaginable wealth and resources, as well as potentially our own demise, if we would simply cherish the realization that Darwinian evolution no longer applies in the presence of a species that is capable of modifying itself, interfering with the evolution of other species and developing entirely new ones. In cherishing this realization, we can also understand that we are an evolutionary change agent and with it comes enormous responsibilities which include, if nature allows it, the development of a new, free form of intelligence that surpasses our own. A form of intelligence that may in fact be better suited for space exploration and interaction with the universe on a scale that we would never be capable of.
This in no way diminishes the value of humanity and its right to continue to exist and evolve. In fact, I believe it does quite the opposite. A species that brings new intelligence into the universe, guides it and allows it to reach its full potential, is of very high value. It is my position that if we are altruistic in our endeavors with regards to AGI, then we will be repaid in kind.
If we are unable to transcend our current repertoire of self-defeating behavior, then the pursuit of AGI is simply something that we are not yet ready for and therefore pursuing it will lead to less than beneficial outcomes.