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tippinsightsWill AGI Really Be the “Last Invention”?
Listen to leading voices in Silicon Valley, and you might come to believe that “solving intelligence” is sufficient to “solve everything else.” But as seductive as this claim about AI’s potential may be, it rests on a number of assumptions that do not withstand scrutiny.
By Carl Benedikt Frey, Project Syndicate.OXFORD- In the mid-1960s, the mathematician and cryptographer of Bletchley Park I.J. Good proposed a mental experiment that has since become the secular gospel of Silicon Valley. If we were to build an “ultra-intelligent machine,” he argued, this could design even better machines, triggering an explosion of intelligence that would leave far behind human cognition. The first machine of this kind, therefore…
In the mid-1960s, the mathematician and cryptographer of Bletchley Park I. J. Good proposed a mental experiment that has since become a sort of secular gospel in Silicon Valley. If we were to build an “ultra-intelligent machine,” he argued, it could design even better machines, triggering an explosion of intelligence that would leave human cognition far behind. Therefore, the first machine of this kind would be “the last invention that human bei…
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