Its depressing to go over all this ultra-shallow chit-chat that has short-circuited any intelligent discussion about the role and trajectory of information technology (let alone any more serious problem or opportunity of the current times).
Talking about AI (and AGI) as if its some xenomorph lurking somewhere in silicon, waiting for its inevitable escape from its human prison.
AI will not bootstrap itself with some emergent property if somebody spends gazillions of dollars and Watts to estimate petazillions of parameters.
Further progress is not going to come unless some very human brain and intelligence opens up completely new algorithmic vistas.
The future of AI is literally tied to the future development of human mental (mathematical) models around information, knowledge and its digital representation.
If not intuitively obvious, the history of mathematical thought development is crushing evidence that it follows its own dynamic over timescales that span centuries.
Talking about AI (and AGI) as if its some xenomorph lurking somewhere in silicon, waiting for its inevitable escape from its human prison.
AI will not bootstrap itself with some emergent property if somebody spends gazillions of dollars and Watts to estimate petazillions of parameters.
Further progress is not going to come unless some very human brain and intelligence opens up completely new algorithmic vistas.
The future of AI is literally tied to the future development of human mental (mathematical) models around information, knowledge and its digital representation.
If not intuitively obvious, the history of mathematical thought development is crushing evidence that it follows its own dynamic over timescales that span centuries.