The term “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) has become ubiquitous
in current discourse around AI. OpenAI states that its mission is “to
ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”
DeepMind’s company vision statement notes that “artificial general
intelligence…has the potential to drive one of the greatest
transformations in history.” AGI is mentioned prominently in the UK
government’s National AI Strategy and in US government AI documents.
Microsoft researchers recently claimed evidence of “sparks of AGI” in
the large language model GPT-4, and current and former Google executives
proclaimed that “AGI is already here.” The question of whether GPT-4 is
an “AGI algorithm” is at the center of a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk
against OpenAI.
Given the pervasiveness of AGI talk in business, government, and the
media, one could not be blamed for assuming that the meaning of the term
is established and agreed upon. However, the opposite is true: What AGI
means, or whether it means anything coherent at all, is hotly debated in
the AI community. And the meaning and likely consequences of AGI have
become more than just an academic dispute over an arcane term. The
world’s biggest tech companies and entire governments are making
important decisions on the basis of what they think AGI will entail. But
a deep dive into speculations about AGI reveals that many AI
practitioners have starkly different views on the nature of intelligence
than do those who study human and animal cognition—differences that
matter for understanding the present and predicting the likely future of
machine intelligence.
Continua qua https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado7069
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Dipartimento di Matematica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
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