Important Takeaways:
- Top scientist warns AI could surpass human intelligence by 2027 – decades earlier than previously predicted
- The computer scientist and CEO who popularized the term ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI) believes AI is verging on an exponential ‘intelligence explosion.’
- The PhD mathematician and futurist Ben Goertzel made the prediction while closing out a summit on AGI this month: ‘It seems quite plausible we could get to human-level AGI within, let’s say, the next three to eight years.’
- ‘Once you get to human-level AGI,’ Goertzel, sometimes called ‘father of AGI,’ added, ‘within a few years you could get a radically superhuman AGI.’
- In recent years, Goertzel has been investigating a concept he calls ‘artificial super intelligence’ (ASI) — which he defines as an AI that’s so advanced that it matches all of the brain power and computing power of human civilization
- In May 2023, the futurist said AI has the potential to replace 80 percent of human jobs ‘in the next few years.’
- ‘Pretty much every job involving paperwork,’ he said at the Web Summit in Rio de Janeiro that month, ‘should be automatable.’
- Goertzel added that he did not see this as a negative, asserting that it would allow people to ‘find better things to do with their life than work for a living.’
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Important Takeaways:
- ‘Technological singularity’ by 2045? Futurists predict point where humans, machines become one
- …the “singularity” refers to a hypothetical point in time at which the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) – that is, AI with human-level abilities – becomes so advanced that it will irreversibly change human civilization.
- Brain implants as the first stage
- Elon Musk’s company Neuralink is seeking permission from the Food and Drug Administration to begin human trials for its BCI technology
- Neuralink hopes to help paraplegic people walk and blind people see again. But beyond these goals are other ambitions.
- Musk has long said he believes brain implants will allow telepathic communication, and lead to the co-evolution of humans and machines. He argues that unless we use such technology to augment our intellects, we risk being wiped out by super-intelligent AI.
- According to Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and former Google innovations engineer, humans with AI-augmented minds could be thrown onto the autobahn of evolution – hurtling forward without speed limits.A
- Kurzweil theorizes…the part of the brain thought to be responsible for “higher functions” such as sensory perception, emotion and cognition – is a hierarchical system of pattern recognizers which, if emulated in a machine, could lead to artificial super-intelligence.
- He predicts the singularity will be with us by 2045, and thinks it might bring about a world of super-intelligent humans
- The final frontier is between our ears
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