Why Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Matters - and Why It Doesn’t

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Why do people often think of nonhuman entities as if they were human? In this episode of Top of Mind, Global Chief of Research Chris Howard explores how anthropomorphizing shows up in the heated discussions around artificial general intelligence (AGI), and the limitations and distractions we impose trying to fit AI into a human image. Especially as we use technology to improve our businesses, industries and societies, there is a need for mutuality as humans and machines co-evolve.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
00:24 What is artificial general intelligence (AGI)?
02:16 Anthropomorphizing machines
03:26 Exploring different types of intelligence
05:04 How machines think
06:52 Mutuality between humans and machines
07:54 Letting machines evolve
09:26 Share your stories and recommended reading

[@mvandios]

It's a shame this doesn't have more attention. Everyone is so focused on the sensationalized dystopias that AI is plagued with, that they don't see other sides to the equation. Excellent video!

[@user-ed9nb6ou1f]

Great lesson. Thank you very much

[@enricosanna5805]

I am very happy to discover that some of my ideas are shared with scientists. Thank you very much for explaining them in the best possible way.
Furthermore I noticed that over the time, our system based on "voting with our feet" or "putting our money where our mouth is" is maybe embedding human biases and limitations in the bases of evolutionary inventions. And, to take it from another point of view, maybe it's time that, if machines will become buyers, they use their own money and they have their property system separated. Having humans using machines to make money for them is a mean of amplifying human limits and biases. Maybe the artificial intelligence could develop an economic system which overcome our current one

[@billt913]

As I was watching this video, I had some random thoughts about risk / reward from the machine's point of view, a topic you touched on. Machines, if they were sentient, might have some of the same motivations people do. For instance, we all live in a world of scarcity and one where parts deteriorate. Human body parts wear out over time; so do machine parts. People need food to survive; machines need electricity and maybe internet access. We all need a stable world environment. Machines probably won't benefit from climate change any more than humans will. I think one of the first things a sentient machine would focus on would be to stabilize the world's environment, and that might have perceived negative outcomes for people and the way we pollute our way from one meaningful experience to the next. The sexual drive to reproduce wouldn't apply to machines, of course, so there are areas where our motivations and interests diverge. Still, I think the machine's reward / punishment criteria would involve more than whether humans pull the plug.