Derek Zahn wrote:
I asked:
> Imagine we have an "AGI". What exactly does it do? What *should* it do?
Note that I think I roughly understand Matt's vision for this: roughly,
it is google, and it will gradually get better at answering questions
and taking commands as more capable systems are linked in to the
network. When and whether it passes the "AGI" threshold is rather an
arbitrary and unimportant issue, it just gets more capable of answering
questions and taking orders.
I find that a very interesting and clear vision. I'm wondering if there
are others.
Surely not!
This line of argument looks like a new version of the same story that
occurred in the very early days of science fiction. People looked at
the newly-forming telephone system and they thought that maybe if it
just got big enough it might become ...... intelligent.
Their reasoning was ... well, there wasn't any reasoning behind the
idea. It was just a mystical "maybe lots of this will somehow add up to
more than the sum of the parts", without any justification for why the
whole should be more than the sum of the parts.
In exactly the same way, there is absolutely no reason to believe that
Google will somehow reach a threshold and (magically) become
intelligent. Why would that happen?
If they deliberately set out to build an AGI somewhere, and then hook
that up to google, that is a different matter entirely. But that is not
what is being suggested here.
Richard Loosemore.
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