No. Open available knowledge is not enough to obtain decisive advantage. For this close cooperation with humans and human led organizations is absolutely necessary. Trust building will take years even for AGIs. In the mean time competing AGIs will appear.
Ben Goertzel does not want to waste time debating any more—he pushes open AGI development to prevent any hardware overhang. Other readers of Bostrums book might start other projects against singleton AI development. We do not have a ceteris paribus condition—we can shape what the default outcome will be.
But who are “we”? There are many agents with different motivations doing AI development. I’m afraid that it will be difficult to control each of this agents(companies, governments, militaries, universities, terrorist groups) in the future, and the deceasing cost of technology will only increase the problem over time .
No. Open available knowledge is not enough to obtain decisive advantage. For this close cooperation with humans and human led organizations is absolutely necessary. Trust building will take years even for AGIs. In the mean time competing AGIs will appear.
Ben Goertzel does not want to waste time debating any more—he pushes open AGI development to prevent any hardware overhang. Other readers of Bostrums book might start other projects against singleton AI development. We do not have a ceteris paribus condition—we can shape what the default outcome will be.
But who are “we”? There are many agents with different motivations doing AI development. I’m afraid that it will be difficult to control each of this agents(companies, governments, militaries, universities, terrorist groups) in the future, and the deceasing cost of technology will only increase the problem over time .