On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 2:04 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I always thought AGI WAS the singularity. > If there is anything the robot can invent that we cant already I thought > it was an absolute NO anyway. :) >
We keep renaming things that are not singularities to singularities to make the problem easier. Just like we did with AI. Which is why we need a new term like AGI to mean what AI originally meant. In mathematics, a singularity is where a function goes to infinity, like 1/(T - t), where t is the current time and T is the time of the Singularity, when collective knowledge, computing power, and intelligence go to infinity. This is exactly what you would observe if each doubling of progress took half the time. That is what Good, Vinge, Kurzweil, and Yudkowsky meant by the Singularity. Except it doesn't do that. Intelligence (dollars per hour) increases logarithmically with knowledge and computing power. The resulting function grows slightly faster than exponentially but never goes to infinity. Every 1.5 years global computing power doubles and global GDP grows 5%. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T94ee05730c7d4074-M46c5756e905b15150ac439cd Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
