Alright, we’ve been hitting you with hard-hitting intellectual pieces about how to lift bigger plates and get bigger muscles – which is great and all, but this is an AI blog so hypothetically we should be talking about AI. It might take over the world and endanger human life, but it would probably be a fun ride, so I am all for it.
For all you uneducated charlatans out there, AGI is basically when artificial intelligence is considered to have achieved a human level of intelligence. What that exactly means is anyone’s guess because most human beings are dumb as a brick (I am looking at you).
Why does this matter? Well, AGI is considered to be a milestone in overall intelligence because typically AI is only good at doing specific tasks really well, such as chess or cheating on college essay papers. With AGI, it is possible that artificial intelligence will get to the point where it is able to do a variety of difficult and different cognitive tasks. There is no universal definition of AGI currently, but for our purposes let’s just say it is when these Boston Dynamics robots get tired of being kicked around and start declaring world war.
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A common bench marker that most people know about is the Turing Test where a third-party observer is unable to differentiate if they are talking to a machine or person (proving how good the machine is). The modern-day version of this is if an AI model is given $100,000 and it has to turn it into $1,000,0000. This would be amazing in my opinion because now I could stop gambling my life savings on bitcoin and just ask AI to do it instead.
Okay, I know what you are thinking….this is great and all, but why does it matter for ME? Because if AGI is achieved, people say that it could lead to mass unemployment with jobs being replaced by artificial intelligence and this could mean your job. With ChatGPT and the use of LLMs hugely impacting the workforce, things are already going in that direction.
Now usually, I would write this off as fear-mongering, and it might still be. However, what is interesting is that in the top technology companies, there are already rumors that AGI has been achieved internally. Let’s keep that a secret between us.
If that is true, then this possibility is coming much sooner than previously expected. Listen, a lot of this is still uncertain, but honestly, I just wanted to warn you first because this is not the first or last time we are going to be writing about this.
Let’s see what happens, it is about to be a wild ride. Less nerdy topics in the future, but hey I like switching it up for now.