AGI: solved already?

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.

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.

I need AGI for the UBI so I can RNR

Dr. Yampolskiy is brilliant and measured thinking about AI implications. No nonsense, which is refreshing in these current debates.

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.

Computing power grows exponentially, AI also grows exponentially.

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?

excellent video john , thanks for spreading the awareness , 100% agree with Roman's takes

I don't see AI renovating homes, or building them to any kind of standard. Designing them, yes. A robot plumber is really at least 25 years away I would wager.

Great video glad i found this channel

Thanks gentlemen

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.

We are cooked🙏🏼

If you can't control something more powerful than you, you better hope you're good at influencing it in the right direction.

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

It doesn't really matter if it takes an additional year or 5 years or 30 years... on the timescales of humanity it's like having brunch... on the timescales of the universe it's like a blink of an eye.

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.

Hey John! Been a minute!

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

As long as they keep the AGI system non-sentient, things will be fine. It must always be a utility agent.