What is the point of making intelligent agents?

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Whether or not we come to understand “intelligence” any time soon, we do have a major challenge on our hands in bringing together computers and humans in ways that enhance human life. While this challenge is viewed by some as subservient to the creation of “artificial intelligence,” it can also be viewed more prosaically — but with no less reverenc... See more

Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

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The better AI gets at doing our work for us, the more we outsource our thinking to it. Thus, as we make machines more humanlike, they make us more machinelike. Perhaps we should be less worried about AI becoming conscious, than about humanity becoming unconscious.

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What exactly is an AI agent? | TechCrunch

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“MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks pointed out in a recent TechCrunch interview that AI has to deal with much tougher problems than most technology, and it won’t necessarily grow in the same rapid way as, say, chips under Moore’s law have.”

Autonomous AI agents could change the world, but what do they actually do well?

Sandhya Hegde unusual.vc

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A third reason to worry about the alignment problem of computers is that because they are so different from us, when we make the mistake of giving them a misaligned goal, they are less likely to notice it or request clarification. If the boat-race AI had been a human gamer, it would have realized that the loophole it found in the game’s rules proba

Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

The strong version of Goodhart's law underlies most of my personal fears around AI (expect a future blog post about my AI fears!). If there is one thing AI will enable, it is greater efficiency, on almost all tasks, over a very short time period. We are going to need to simultaneously deal with massive numbers of diverse unwanted side effects,

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein • Too Much Efficiency Makes Everything Worse: Overfitting and the Strong Version of Goodhart's Law

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The "Egg Theory" of AI Agents

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Embracing Agentic AI: Empowering Artificial Intelligence as Active Agents

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At the heart of agentic AI lies the concept of imbuing artificial intelligence systems with agency — the ability to act and perceive the world around them, much like human agents. Unlike traditional AI models that operate within predefined parameters and rules, agentic AI systems possess the autonomy to adapt to changing circumstances, respond to stimuli, and make decisions in real time. This fundamental shift from reactive to proactive AI marks a significant leap forward in the field, unlocking a multitude of possibilities across diverse domains