The thing about AGI is that you only have to get to about 50-100x baseline and then it's Not Your Problem anymore. Wheatley's post about that algorithm from OpenAI was very impressive! =)
Things are starting to speed up on the neural interface front too, thanks be to Lord Musk... All these things demand that we start getting cereal about thinking about how AGI systems will actually be deployed and used. Obviously there will be a massive evolutionary flow here, but still there will be a trajectory effect where early designs will powerfully influence how it will evolve. I have not come across anyone talking about this seriously but AGI will be the most demanding application ever. It will require supercomputing level processing power and medical-grade availability. You certainly don't want the system backing your neural interface to go offline! [Somewhat related RL: The electric power to my house has been very unreliable the last few weeks, frequently having momentary spikes and brief outages. The most recent of which seems to have dammaged the sound output circuitry on my motherboard. =( ] Assuming that nobody wants to be dependent on the Amazon Cloud for their mental processes, the total AGI solution must be available for individuals to build for themselves. -- though obviously AGI hosting services will be a major business model. [[ hmm, this post is starting to sound like a business prospectus... ]] Ok, so what features do we require? First, AGI must be able to operate continuously, it must be able to process petabytes of information continuously and perpetually without memory leaks. Failing that it needs to be able to isolate leaking modules and shed them. Second, one of the defining features of AGI, especially early AGI will be rapid evolution in that it will need to be able to incorporate new modules and shed obsolete or faulty modules without going offline. Neural interfaces bring in all the standard requirements for safety, security, and usefulness. No need to go into detail there. The platform must be robust to hardware failures and continue to operate until there really are no operable processors left. Today's software is commically bad. It is optimized to be cheap to develop over all other qualities. Especially the most malnourished developers are selected from the most impovrished countries are selecteded above people living only a few miles away who had made the horrible mistake of spending a lot of time getting really good atprogramming. Advances in hardware performance have been used to facilitate further cost savings in software development. [post feels incomplete but out of ideas atm, and I need to get this off this machine before I have to rip it apart for RMA.... =| ] -- The vaccine is a LIE. Powers are not rights. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T00500442acbcb286-M91a3dda3a7d5b994fa7a6e77 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
