| What a silly article. Every premise presented is flawed and thus every conclusion based on those premises is not applicable. There are 0 AGI's on earth. I recognize the author is intentionally twisting the definition of "AGI" since the imprecise nature of the field can lead to some debate about the definition, but I think it makes the most sense to side with the most popular definition which is, "Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can."[1] No such entities or algorithms exist that could reasonably be considered to fall under this definition. The goal of the AI field of study is not necessarily to create a system that emulates a human. This is only a proposed solution to accomplishing the actual goal which is to create something with the same intellectual capacity as a human. It is an important distinction. Yes, if the goal was to simply create an artificial human and then stop there without giving the system the ability to further improve itself then it would make no sense to spend decades of man hours on the task because we could just do it the old fashioned way and spend approximately twenty years raising a child to maturity. But no, the goal is to create a system capable of reasoning in a way sufficiently similar to a human that it could reasonably be expected of performing adequately in any situation that a human might. Given that this could be accomplished, presumably the intelligence of the system could be scaled according to the amount of computational power is fed into it, propelling it past the most intelligent humans that have lived so far. Consider a system twice as intelligent as Einstein with the ability to reflect on its own architecture and then modify that architecture, thus further increasing its own intelligence. From there, the hope is that something orders of magnitude more intelligent than the most intelligent humans to ever live could more aptly extract observations about the world given the same amount of data as humans and then conceive of clever ways to overcome the limitations of "finite resources." The author seems hopelessly out of touch with the actual aims of the field he has chosen to criticize and so I am unsure why they ever thought they had any place to (attempt to) make their critique in the first place. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc... |