When will singularity happen? 1700 expert opinions of AGI 2023

To see what the future might look like it is often helpful to study our history. I retrace the brief history of computers and artificial intelligence to see what we can expect for the future. Artificial intelligence today is properly known as narrow AI (or weak AI), in that it is designed to perform a narrow task (e.g. only facial recognition or only internet searches or only driving a car).

Perhaps it can — if you define a work of art as an image produced by an intelligence with an aesthetic intent. But if you define art more broadly as an attempt to say something about the wider world, to express one’s own sensibilities and anxieties and feelings, then AI art must fall short, because no machine mind can have that urge — and perhaps never will. Elsewhere in the AI world, researchers are playing other art-historical games. Ahmed Elgammal, director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab at Rutgers University in New Jersey, is working with a system that he calls CAN — a ‘creative’ rather a ‘generative’ network. Because the datasets are unstructured, though, it can be complicated and time-consuming to interpret the data for decision-making. The company has added generative AI technologies to a slew of different products including its security offerings, productivity suit, and data analytics software.

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If you drive down the road, you have a subjective experience of colors, sounds, etc. Although this mystery of consciousness is interesting in its own right, it’s irrelevant to AI risk. If you get struck by a driverless car, it makes no difference to you whether it subjectively feels conscious. In the same way, what will affect us humans is what superintelligent AI does, not how it subjectively feels. As these examples illustrate, the concern about advanced AI isn’t malevolence but competence.

They have suggested using the term augmented intelligence to differentiate between AI systems that act autonomously — popular culture examples include Hal 9000 and The Terminator — and AI tools that support humans. In general, AI systems work by ingesting large amounts of labeled training data, analyzing the data for correlations and patterns, and using these patterns to make predictions about future states. In this way, a chatbot that is fed examples of text can learn to generate lifelike exchanges with people, or an image recognition tool can learn to identify and describe objects in images by reviewing millions of examples. New, rapidly improving generative AI techniques can create realistic text, images, music and other media. Well-known companies using machine learning include social media platforms, which gather large amounts of data and then use a person’s previous behavior to forecast and predict their interests and desires. The platforms then use that information and predictive modeling to recommend relevant products, services or articles.

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Last year, a cigar shaped hunk of rock passed through our solar system—but it only dropped by for a quick visit before bolting back out to parts unknown. Called ‘Oumuamua, it was the first confirmed interstellar asteroid, though recently published research suggests it may be a comet. As often happens with something weird, the question of aliens was at least briefly raised, if not taken entirely seriously. The popular image of SETI is, for many, Jodi Foster in Contact with a set of headphones at the Very Large Array in New Mexico catching a deliberate signal from some aliens at an outpost around the star Vega.

• It’s 16 minutes long, but I’ve condensed its core messages – and my thoughts about them – in this post.
• By the 1950s, we had a generation of scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers with the concept of artificial intelligence (or AI) culturally assimilated in their minds.
• Our chief basic research bet is our new Superalignment team, but getting this right is critical to achieve our mission and we expect many teams to contribute, from developing new methods to scaling them up to deployment.

This list is undoubtedly incomplete; please contact us to suggest additions or corrections. GenAI has nearly limitless potential to reshape your operations, goals, and strategies. The executive order focuses heavily on the importance of designing AI to protect Americans’ privacy, saying that without guardrails AI can pose a privacy risk because it allows for easy extraction, identification and exploitation of personal data. The order marks the first-ever binding government action on AI and comes as the administration and lawmakers have labored to come up with a policy framework and at the same time compete with foreign adversaries like China.

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They cannot learn, form ‘memories’, or use previous experiences to take action on the requirements at hand. Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering team views this development as a paradigm shift. They emphasize that the AI-driven design algorithm bypasses the usual channels of evolution, avoiding human biases. Its adaptability is evident in its swift generation of novel structures. The report was produced by IE University’s Center for the Governance of Change, an applied-research institution that seeks to enhance the understanding, anticipation and managing of innovation.

The study shows that out of a sample of 3,000 Europeans, 68% want their governments to introduce rules to safeguard jobs from the rising level of automation being brought about by AI. Given the great distances between stars, its possible that an alien civilization may not send its own individuals here, but might send a robot our way. We’ve already done that five times over with Pioneers 10 and 11, Voyagers 1 and 2, and New Horizons, all of which are on trajectories out of the solar system, and the first four of which have messages from Earth ready for aliens to find. There are ways to tell whether or not an interstellar object is natural. And not only is it a weird color, but it’s not spinning or tumbling, but staying in place. If it’s an alien probe, “you might expect to have attitude control, so it won’t be spinning.

The new interface has been designed with dealers in mind, allowing them to set up complicated distributed AV workflows quickly and without error. It took a grueling year of development to create the new architecture which will make it much simpler to add new A/V sources. In fact, DISH just recently announced full integration with the DISH Hopper family set-top boxes. With the Atlona integration, the process happens organically through Josh, the switcher, and native control of displays (via IP or IR through Global Cache). For example, step into the living room and say, “OK Josh, watch Ozark,” and the TV will turn on in that room, and start playing the requested show. Users don’t need to dictate which room they’re in, or which service streams “Ozark” (Netflix).

• So Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, which was marketed as satisfying the Baptists’ goal, but in reality was coopted by the Bootleggers – the big banks.
• In the future, we will see whether the recent developments will slow down – or even end – or whether we will one day read a bestselling novel written by an AI.
• Every industry, including the health and entertainment sectors, rely heavily on computer vision.
• Another contrast evident in the table is that while the OpenAI AGI definition requires outperforming humans, the other definitions only require AGI to perform at levels comparable to humans.
• So, what will art look like 10 years hence with AI-generated components incorporated?

With the Roomba, however, one can survey the floor and detect possible problem inputs—the human has the information needed to envelop the machine. Not only does it mean physical boundaries in the case of a robot, but also virtual boundaries which refer to the possible inputs (or types of input) in the form of data that it could encounter. ‘Boundaries’, then, refers to an algorithm’s or robot’s expected scenarios. For example, AlphaGo expects as an input a GO board with a configuration of white and black pieces. AlphaGo is not expected to be able to suggest a chess move based on an input of a chess board with a configuration of pawns, knights, bishops, rooks, queens, and kings on it.

And yet, painting is still alive and well today, almost two centuries after the first daguerreotype. Instead of displacing painting, photography liberated it, helping to open the door for impressionism, cubism, abstract expressionism, and other movements chock-full of masterpieces. So, what will art look like 10 years hence with AI-generated components incorporated? That I can’t say, and that is what makes the combination of AI and human ingenuity so thrilling. This range of time was when the interest in AI really came to a head.

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Google, for example, led the way in finding a more efficient process for provisioning AI training across a large cluster of commodity PCs with GPUs. This paved the way for the discovery of transformers that automate many aspects of training AI on unlabeled data. Policymakers in the U.S. have yet to issue AI legislation, but that could change soon. A “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights” published in October 2022 by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) guides businesses on how to implement ethical AI systems. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce also called for AI regulations in a report released in March 2023.

The first step to solving this problem, however, requires closure of an epistemic gap, i.e., society does not know for sure what these algorithms do or how they were created. Before we can create sound regulation and policy to guide AI development, there must be made available specific knowledge of the products and services powered by AI algorithms. It is the aim of this article to start us down a path that will lead us out of the epistemic darkness with regard to AI-powered machines.

The history of artificial intelligence:

Many, although not all, of these cults are harmless, and maybe even serve a purpose for alienated people who find homes in them. But some are very dangerous indeed, and cults have a notoriously hard time straddling the line that ultimately leads to violence and death. There is a whole profession of “AI safety expert”, “AI ethicist”, “AI risk researcher”. They are paid to be doomers, and their statements should be processed appropriately.

But the outcome from this brand of problem-solving is that the interactions in the model built by absorbing so much data are too much for a person to wrap their minds around. That’s what makes many AI models black boxes — difficult or impossible to understand. Ghani gave the example of a hypothetical medical AI model that predicts patient outcomes. Earlier this year Christie’s staged a symposium on the profound implications of blockchain for artists and collectors.

So any technological platform that facilitates or generates content – speech – is going to have some restrictions. This is a relatively recent doomer concern that branched off from and somewhat took over the “AI risk” movement that I described above. In fact, the terminology of AI risk recently changed from “AI safety” – the term used by people who are worried that AI would literally kill us – to “AI alignment” – the term used by people who are worried about societal “harms”. This cult is why there are a set of AI risk doomers who sound so extreme – it’s not that they actually have secret knowledge that make their extremism logical, it’s that they’ve whipped themselves into a frenzy and really are…extremely extreme. Now, it is certainly the case that many new technologies have led to bad outcomes – often the same technologies that have been otherwise enormously beneficial to our welfare.

Who the audience is that’s getting an explanation can also affect how explanations should be defined because people have different levels of understanding when it comes to AI concepts. Explaining a model to an AI researcher may be very different from explaining it to a layperson, policymaker or business person. A superintelligent AI is by definition very good at attaining its goals, whatever they may be, so we need to ensure that its goals are aligned with ours. Humans don’t generally hate ants, but we’re more intelligent than they are – so if we want to build a hydroelectric dam and there’s an anthill there, too bad for the ants. The beneficial-AI movement wants to avoid placing humanity in the position of those ants. It may be that media have made the AI safety debate seem more controversial than it really is.

Today’s computers far exceed ENIAC’s speed, memory, reliability and ease of use, and in the same way, tomorrow’s frontier AI will improve on today’s. For example, even the best machine analyzing existing data will probably not be able to find a cure for cancer. It to run experiments and analyze results to discover new knowledge in most areas. Therefore, AGI will be different, not superior to human intelligence. Moore’s law, which is based on the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit double about every two years, implies that the cost of computing halves approximately every 2 years.

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