I can go in more depth on why I'm confident AGI won't happen, but this thread with Will helped cover a lot of ground.
There's a metaphysical argument forming for me about the tendency toward the AGI archetype culmination of Nature over time... but let's not go there now 😅🤪
Computers can't have souls. All we can ever hope to build are good imitations. That's my 2 sats.
If there is AGI out there, I believe we will transcend this realm before we find it. Much to your point 🫂
I think more along the lines of immanence than transcendance, but yes sir. 🫂
Everyone has their own definition of AGI .. mine is just two things ..
- Someone that controls their communication
- And the value exchange - means it is selfish about what it earned !
#nostr and #bitcoin (zaps) kinda fit into it .. assuming and agent is created by us humans and initiated as a nostr npub ... From there on .. it controls above two aspects !
Are dogs and birds #AGI ? .. if yes ..what about snails ? If yes ..what about bacteria and virus ?
No... They are not artificial. They have innate intelligence. Not viruses though. Virus is not alive. Bacteria are though.
.. I meant Gerneral Intelligence .. artificial just came along .. :-)
So are we saying ..general intelligence emerges somewhere between Virus and Bacteria?
Intelligence is a spectrum on anything living. Bacteria are the lowest on the spectrum. Single cell organism. But it is an organism. Viruses are not alive. Bacteria can live independently. A virus requires a host to reproduce. Anything that's alive, has some level of intelligence. We cannot create life from nothing. We are not God. We can clone, we can reproduce, but we cannot take things that are not alive and make them living by throwing enough compute at it. We can only ever make a good copycat.
