General Purpose AI
Not Artificial General Einstein
When it comes to general purpose artificial intelligence, we already have that and the last thing we need is an Artificial General Einstein. AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), I ague is large language models (LLMs) as we have today.
The current conception of AGI seems to be an intelligent machinery that thinks outside the box and is super smart, not just general, and at least equal to a human in respect capacity to make decisions for itself and of itself.
In terms of that capacity, I wrote about this a couple of years ago before AGI was on everybody’s lips, where I said that machines that make decisions for themselves and of themselves will be useless to human-kind because we will have no say over whether or not they wish to do anything for us but rather for themselves.
In 2019, the writing was on the wall for where AI technology was heading, writing:
“An AGI must be able to form models of data structures over which to operate, and store that model and (likely) the data itself, over which to operate to produce intelligent thought.”
Large Language Models embody that, where today’s LLMs would have no problem conceptualising the assemblage of their own training-data-set and have a conception of their own architecture and mode of…
