Thank you Matt. I always enjoy reading your posts and comments. On Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 7:23 AM Matt Mahoney <mattmahone...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most people don't think about AGI. Very few of those who do believe that > we need to worry about an unfriendly singularity. > > A self improving AGI needs to acquire both knowledge and computing power, > the two components of intelligence. Right now, that's the internet. Your > phone already has more storage than human long term memory (10^9 bits). > It's not clear that self improvement has to start at human level > intelligence, measured somehow. > > A self improving AGI in a box (if that were possible) cannot gain > knowledge by rewriting its own software. The worst that can happen is self > replicating nanotechnology. Freitas worked out the physics. The replication > rate is maximized for bacteria sized agents. They would be limited to about > the same speed and power requirement as real bacteria, or slightly better. > https://foresight.org/nano/Ecophagy.php > > Your containment strategy has to account for millions of cheap nanoscale > 3-D printers in the hands of hobbyists and hackers. At the current rate of > Moore's law, the internet will surpass the computing power of the biosphere > (10^37 bits of DNA memory, 10^31 transcription operations per second) in > the 2080s. Solar cells are already more efficient than chlorophyll, and > could displace DNA based life. But I don't think it's something we need to > worry about now. Nothing we could build today would be more dangerous than > a computer virus. > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 5:42 PM Mohammadreza Alidoust < > class.alido...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear AGI friends, >> >> >> Yesterday I was notified that one of my papers was cited in a 2020 >> technical report from Global Catastrophic Risk Institute about active AGI >> projects. Although that paper was my first steps in AGI I wondered why my >> other paper about my main model "AGI Brain" was not cited. Also, AGI Brain >> is my personal project based on many years of my enthusiasm in the field, >> and I am not working on it for AGT co. nor anyone/any company else as >> mentioned in that report. >> >> Anyway I got surprised that how people and media might look at AGI. As >> mentioned in the report, AGI Brain is the only active AGI project in my >> country Iran and as far as I know most of the people here even do not know >> about the field. When I speak with my friends about what AGI is and about >> my excitement and eager in AGI, they mostly get excited and say: Oh! Thats >> fantastic! Such a great field! And then they ask: But... would AGI be an >> enemy to the humanity? Would it vanish life from the earth? How could you >> control such thing? What are the benefits of AGI?... . Some of their >> questions leave me speechless. >> >> And now I wonder how would other people around the world think about >> this? Do they really think AGI is a global catastrophic risk? And how do >> you answer such questions? Your answers may help me either ;) >> >> I suggest AGI scientists in the Ethics field should explain the bright >> side of the AGI to the public sector in a way that everybody could easily >> understand that side too. >> >> >> Best regards and stay safe! >> >> Mohammadreza Alidoust >> >> >> P.S. I attached that report. >> > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T86b555c591599ac6-M1a9ab885d9681ec5e56ae0cb> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T86b555c591599ac6-M1a7dcbd18589df84b65b0184 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
