AGI is here (and I feel fine)

The key word in Arti­fi­cial Gen­eral Intel­li­gence is Gen­eral. That’s the word that makes this AI unlike every other AI: because every other AI was trained for a par­tic­ular purpose. Consider land­mark models across the decades: the Mark I Perceptron, LeNet, AlexNet, AlphaGo, AlphaFold … these sys­tems were all dif­ferent, but all alike in this way.

Lan­guage models were trained for a purpose, too … but, sur­prise: the mech­a­nism & scale of that training did some­thing new: opened a wormhole, through which a vast field of action & response could be reached. Towering libraries of human writing, drawn together across time & space, all the dumb rea­sons for it … that’s rich fuel, if you can hold it all in your head.
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