Sharks, I'm seeking $100 million in return for a 10% share of my company, World Domination, Inc.
What are your current sales? What is your profit margin? Right now zero. But my plan is foolproof. Once I achieve artificial consciousness and artificial sapience, my system will self improve and launch a singularity. How do you plan to achieve artificial consciousness? I can't tell you. It's a secret. But I have a perfect theory. By consciousness, do you mean? 1. The opposite of unconsciousness. The ability to receive input and form memories. 2. Phenomenal consciousness. The ability to suffer and feel pleasure, rather than just taking observable actions to avoid one and seek the other. 3. The moral obligation to protect from harm. I don't know. I guess all 3. Aren't they the same word? You know, consciousness. Do I need to define it? How will your system be different than LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, etc? If they all pass the Turing test, then how do you know if they are conscious or not? Mine will be smarter because after I achieve artificial consciousness, the next step will be artificial sapience. What do you mean by sapience? You know, like consciousness but smarter. And then ASI. How will you do that? I don't know yet, but I'm sure it can be solved with more money. Sounds great! Here's my $100 million. Sorry, you're off the project because you asked too many questions about the Hard Problem. On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 12:22 AM Alan Grimes via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > These days news about AI topics are coming in at a frenzied pace. There > is so much activity in the field at the moment that the only thing a > reasonable person can do at the moment is hang on for dear life, only a > lunatic would try to launch a new venture at this juncture. > > So let me tell you about the venture I want to start. I would like to > put together a lab / research venture to sprint to achieve machine > consciousness. I think there is enough tech available these days that I > think there's enough tech to try out my theory of consciousness. For the > sake of completing the project, all discussion is prohibited. If you > mention the Hard Problem, then you're off the project, no discussion! I > want to actually do this, go ruminated hard problems for the next ten > millinea, I don't care. You are allowed to argue with me but I have > absolute authority to shut down any argument with prejudice. > > The problem of testing my theory of consciousness we'll have to > integrate a bunch of cutting edge tech in a near real time system. The > goal is to produce a system that exhibits consciousness in a much > stronger and satisfying way than any competing system. The proposed > consciousness solution probably won't solve sapience (which requires > high level reasoning) but just being able to LLM chat with the agent > should be a fairly compelling experience that should be enough to get me > more funding. > > <idiocracy voice> I like money. </idiocracy> > > It will lequire a good VR simulator, preferably multi user / multi agent > where other competing systems can be tested and compared. It will > require the tight integration of a variety of cutting edge systems and > maybe a new algorithm or two that shouldn't be tooo tough. I heared that > if you shook a tree in Menlo park a VC would fall out. Anyone know some > good trees to shake? > > I'm going to need to figure out the finances. I should have enough to > travel, seek VC and stuff, open an office for a few months, but that's > about it. (The Silver Cowabunga play seems to be in motion so I could be > fantabuously wealthy RSN), but still in need of AGI. Regarding the > silver cowabunga play, BEWARE OF FALSE SELL SIGNALS!!!!!! Silver is your > life-raft to the Other Side. Then it's time to liquidate and invest.... > > I think the project can reach working prototype stage for $70-100M . No > idea how I would market a conscious NPC... Naturally next steps would be > to implement more algorithmic ideas I have to get closer to full > sapience, and ultimately ASI, then my focus will be on neural > interfacing and other more shadowy aspects of my total world domination > plans... WHAT??? You don't have plans for total world domination??? > What's the matter with you, get to scheming right this instant!!! Don't > you know that super villians always have more HP than heros? It's not > about being a dick, it's about having five bars of reserve health... > > -- > You can't out-crazy a Democrat. > #EggCrisis #BlackWinter > White is the new Kulak. > Powers are not rights. > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tc72db78d6b880c68-Mc8382ffc4dbfdb5b2c8ad6e8 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
