Toward a Definition of AGI
Using AI as a co-intelligence, as I did while writing, is where AI is the most valuable. Figure out a way to do this yourself if you can. As a starting point, follow the first principle (invite AI to everything) until you start to learn the shape of the Jagged Frontier in your work. This will let you know what the AI can do and what it can’t. Then
... See moreEthan Mollick • Co-Intelligence
While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us? How does it change us when we realize that even today’s mind-mimicking “weak AI” can already take over cognitive tasks and abilities we once thought were exclusively human?
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
I’m starting with a simple-sounding question: What is AGI?
The leading labs have all informally named building AGI as their explicit goal, yet there’s surprisingly little consensus on what it means. News articles do this hand-wavey trick where they spell out “artificial general intelligence,” then wedge a definition like “AI better than humans at co... See more
The leading labs have all informally named building AGI as their explicit goal, yet there’s surprisingly little consensus on what it means. News articles do this hand-wavey trick where they spell out “artificial general intelligence,” then wedge a definition like “AI better than humans at co... See more
Instead of asking whether machines will ever become conscious, we might ask whether humans can become conscious enough to outgrow the “artificial intelligence” both inside them and in the machines around them.