AGI: solved already?
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Published 2024-05-21
OpenAI just released GPT-4o. It’s impressive, and the implications are huge for so many different professions ... not least of which is education and tutoring.
It’s also showing us the beginning of AI that is truly present in our lives ... AI that sees what we see, doesn’t exist just in a box with text input, hears what we hear, and hallucinates less.
What does that — and other recent advancements in AI — mean for AGI?
In this episode of TechFirst, host John Koetsier discusses the implications of OpenAI's GPT-4 release and explores the current state and future of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) with Roman Yampolskiy, a PhD research scientist and associate professor.
They delve into the rapid advancements in AI, the concept of AGI, potential impacts on different professions, the cultural and existential risks, and the challenges of safety and alignment with AGI. The conversation also covers the societal changes needed to adapt to a future where mental and physical labor could be fully automated.
00:00 Exploring the Boundaries of AI's Capabilities
01:36 The Evolution and Impact of AI on Human Intelligence
03:39 The Rapid Advancements in AI and the Path to AGI
06:38 The Societal Implications of Advanced AI and AGI
09:27 Navigating the Future of Work and AI's Role
14:52 The Ethical Dilemmas of Developing Superintelligent AI
19:22 Looking Ahead: The Unpredictable Future of AI
All Comments (21)
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Our ancestors existed for hundreds of thousands of years without 9-5 jobs. We will find meaning without them. A much needed refocusing on family and personal relationships for starters.
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I’m a machinist. I started back when the first computerized machines were coming into the shop. They weren’t very impressive. But they did take my job. Kinda. Slowly, over 35 years. I now do the work of 5 machinists of old. Better and faster. But those 4 other guys had time to retire, retrain, or find work in a growing economy. The office workers and engineers I work with either aren’t paying attention or are in denial about AI. And these are smart people. Just a 25% increase in productivity from AI on jobs done on computers would be catastrophic to the economy. We are totally unprepared for what is coming. Forget AGI, just AI agents that are consistent will be enough to upend things.
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I need AGI for the UBI so I can RNR
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Dr. Yampolskiy is brilliant and measured thinking about AI implications. No nonsense, which is refreshing in these current debates.
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If you imagine these two are AI generated, having a generated conversation, you can see what the future of online content will be. The enshitification of culture as AI takes the reins.
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Computing power grows exponentially, AI also grows exponentially.
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If you apply game theory to AGI development corporations and (more significantly governments) can't afford not to participate in the race because there is only one winner. Whomever gets there first has won the game. Oh and here's how you know that we haven't achieved AGI - humans are still working on AGI. Once it exists it will be able to improve itself faster than we ever could. OpenAI/Google et al will sack all of its programming staff and start hiring psychologists while becoming a company that does everything but AI. I mean if you have AI and you are a profit making company why would you give it to anyone else?
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excellent video john , thanks for spreading the awareness , 100% agree with Roman's takes
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Great video glad i found this channel
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Thanks gentlemen
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agi has been solved. it just hasn't been fully implemented yet. It's like building a car. All the parts are there. Laid out. They're just trying to figure out how to hook it all together without getting killed themselves.
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We are cooked🙏🏼
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I wonder when we can have an ai assistant on us to tell us how to cure diseases with large databases of medicine to save money and time in clinical trials etc
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John, your voice sounds a lot like Clint Harp on Fixer Upper. This is interesting for this reason - an famous actress is suing because an AI company is using her voice. But given any one person, you can find another person who can legally imitate them vocally. So an AI company would have an easy time taking a voice and modifying it while still having it sound the same. The overtones and harmonics and whatnot could be changed while keeping the basic structure. Then they could simply say that they are not using her voice but imitating it. This can also be said for any type of copyrightable thing - art, movies, written prose, poetry, even performance art.
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How soon do you yall think that ai will just kinda take over and accelerate to agi what would we need to do start doing that
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If you can't control something more powerful than you, you better hope you're good at influencing it in the right direction.
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Hey John! Been a minute!
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The problem isnt the hardware not really, being the data its trained on, its how we access in a model in a llm how it all fits together to be more than just a summarising tool or something without cohesion Gpt 4o has almost 100% cohesion it can rewrite entire books edit them then put them back into the same state as before, it can create and read pdfs, its vision in image recognition means text is irrelevant and soon images will be when we get video, if we can’t understand full consistent clarity as being the thing that gets to AGI why would they focus on it
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I don't believe that the measure of AI is how good it its at something or how many things it can do better than people but rather how it learned it in the first place...
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Could you elaborate on the strategies to ensure safe AI development as we approach AGI?
