Our current paradigm is almost depleted. We are hitting the wall with both data (PaLM uses 780B tokens, there are 3T tokens publicly available, additional Ts can be found in closed systems, but that’s it) and compute (We will soon hit Landauer’s limit so no more exponentially cheaper computation. Current technology is only three orders of magnitude above this limit).
What we currently have is very similar to what we will ultimately be able to achieve with current paradigm. And it is nowhere near AGI. We need to solve either the data problem or the compute problem.
There is no practical possibility of solving the data problem ⇒ We need a new AI paradigm that does not depend on existing big data.
I assume that we are using existing resource nearly optimally and no significantly more powerful AI paradigm will be created until we have significantly more powerful computers. To have more significantly more powerful computers, we need to sidestep Landauer’s limit, e.g. by using reversible computing or other completely different hardware architecture.
There is no indication that such architecture is currently in development and ready to use. It will probably take decades for such architecture to materialize and it is not even clear whether we are able to build such computer with our current technologies.
We will need several technological revolutions before we will be able to increase our compute significantly. This will hamper the development of AI, perhaps indefinitely. We might need significant advances in material science, quantum science etc to be theoretically able to build computers that are significantly better than what we have today. Then, we will need to develop the AI algorithms to run on them and hope that it is finally enough to reach AGI-levels of compute. Even then, it might take additional decades to actually develop the algorithms.
There is no indication for many catastrophic scenarios and truthfully I don’t worry about any of them.
What does “no indication” mean in this context? Can you translate that into probability speak?
No indication in this context means that:
Our current paradigm is almost depleted. We are hitting the wall with both data (PaLM uses 780B tokens, there are 3T tokens publicly available, additional Ts can be found in closed systems, but that’s it) and compute (We will soon hit Landauer’s limit so no more exponentially cheaper computation. Current technology is only three orders of magnitude above this limit).
What we currently have is very similar to what we will ultimately be able to achieve with current paradigm. And it is nowhere near AGI. We need to solve either the data problem or the compute problem.
There is no practical possibility of solving the data problem ⇒ We need a new AI paradigm that does not depend on existing big data.
I assume that we are using existing resource nearly optimally and no significantly more powerful AI paradigm will be created until we have significantly more powerful computers. To have more significantly more powerful computers, we need to sidestep Landauer’s limit, e.g. by using reversible computing or other completely different hardware architecture.
There is no indication that such architecture is currently in development and ready to use. It will probably take decades for such architecture to materialize and it is not even clear whether we are able to build such computer with our current technologies.
We will need several technological revolutions before we will be able to increase our compute significantly. This will hamper the development of AI, perhaps indefinitely. We might need significant advances in material science, quantum science etc to be theoretically able to build computers that are significantly better than what we have today. Then, we will need to develop the AI algorithms to run on them and hope that it is finally enough to reach AGI-levels of compute. Even then, it might take additional decades to actually develop the algorithms.
I don’t think any of the claims you just listed are actually true. I guess we’ll see.