{"id":185815,"date":"2024-03-23T06:24:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T11:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/debates-on-the-nature-of-artificial-general-intelligence"},"modified":"2024-03-23T06:24:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T11:24:32","slug":"debates-on-the-nature-of-artificial-general-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/debates-on-the-nature-of-artificial-general-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Debates on the nature of artificial general intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nwUARJeeplA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cartificial general intelligence\u201d (AGI) has become ubiquitous in current discourse around AI. OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/about\">states<\/a> that its mission is \u201cto ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.\u201d DeepMind\u2019s company vision statement <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/about\">notes<\/a> that \u201cartificial general intelligence\u2026has the potential to drive one of the greatest transformations in history.\u201d AGI is mentioned prominently in the UK government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/614db4d1e90e077a2cbdf3c4\/National_AI_Strategy_-_PDF_version.pdf\">National AI Strategy<\/a> and in US government <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NAIAC-Charter.pdf\">AI documents<\/a>. Microsoft researchers recently <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.12712\">claimed<\/a> evidence of \u201csparks of AGI\u201d in the large language model GPT-4, and current and former Google executives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noemamag.com\/artificial-general-intelligence-is-already-here\/\">proclaimed<\/a> that \u201cAGI is already here.\u201d The question of whether GPT-4 is an \u201cAGI algorithm\u201d is at the center of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/musk-v-altman-openai-complaint-sf.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a> filed by Elon Musk against OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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\u2014differences that matter for understanding the present and predicting the likely future of machine intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The original goal of the AI field was to create machines with general intelligence comparable to that of humans. Early AI pioneers were optimistic: In 1965, Herbert Simon predicted in his book <i>The Shape of Automation for Men and Management<\/i> that \u201cmachines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work that a man can do,\u201d and, in a 1970 issue of <i>Life<\/i> magazine, Marvin Minsky is quoted as declaring that, \u201cIn from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being. I mean a machine that will be able to read Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics, tell a joke, have a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u201cartificial general intelligence\u201d (AGI) has become ubiquitous in current discourse around AI. OpenAI states that its mission is \u201cto ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.\u201d DeepMind\u2019s company vision statement notes that \u201cartificial general intelligence\u2026has the potential to drive one of the greatest transformations in history.\u201d AGI is mentioned prominently in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2019,1490,23,41,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-humor","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}