Developing Computational Agency

By contrast, the definition I proposed—AGI is achieved when it makes economic sense to keep your agent running continuously—is a binary, irreversible, and immovable threshold: Once we are running our agents 24/7, we’ve hit it, and there’s no going back. (After all, we can’t uninvent it.)

I like this definition because in order to meet it we will... See more

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay—a malleable material that users could reshape at will. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. When your tools don’t work the way you need them to, you submit feedback and hope for the best. You’re forced to adapt your workflow to fit your software, when it... See more