Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We?re Not Ready.

webecedarian · 1 Apr 2025, 12:46 PM

Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We?re Not Ready.
Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously ? whether you?re an optimist or a pessimist.
By Kevin Roose

I believe that very soon ? probably in 2026 or 2027, but possibly as soon as this year ? one or more A.I. companies will claim they?ve created an artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., which is usually defined as something like ?a general-purpose A.I. system that can do almost all cognitive tasks a human can do.?

I believe that when A.G.I. is announced, there will be debates over definitions and arguments about whether or not it counts as ?real? A.G.I., but that these mostly won?t matter, because the broader point ? that we are losing our monopoly on human-level intelligence, and transitioning to a world with very powerful A.I. systems in it ? will be true...

I don?t worry about individuals overpreparing for A.G.I., either. A bigger risk, I think, is that most people won?t realize that powerful A.I. is here until it?s staring them in the face ? eliminating their job, ensnaring them in a scam, harming them or someone they love. This is, roughly, what happened during the social media era, when we failed to recognize the risks of tools like Facebook and Twitter until they were too big and entrenched to change.

For the whole article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...g-the-agi.html

Bamb0 · 2 Apr 2025, 12:12 PM

Yes ppl need to reject this crap!!!

1 Apr 2025, 12:46 PM	#1
webecedarian Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 538	Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We?re Not Ready. Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We?re Not Ready. Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously ? whether you?re an optimist or a pessimist. By Kevin Roose I believe that very soon ? probably in 2026 or 2027, but possibly as soon as this year ? one or more A.I. companies will claim they?ve created an artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., which is usually defined as something like ?a general-purpose A.I. system that can do almost all cognitive tasks a human can do.? I believe that when A.G.I. is announced, there will be debates over definitions and arguments about whether or not it counts as ?real? A.G.I., but that these mostly won?t matter, because the broader point ? that we are losing our monopoly on human-level intelligence, and transitioning to a world with very powerful A.I. systems in it ? will be true... I don?t worry about individuals overpreparing for A.G.I., either. A bigger risk, I think, is that most people won?t realize that powerful A.I. is here until it?s staring them in the face ? eliminating their job, ensnaring them in a scam, harming them or someone they love. This is, roughly, what happened during the social media era, when we failed to recognize the risks of tools like Facebook and Twitter until they were too big and entrenched to change. For the whole article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...g-the-agi.html

2 Apr 2025, 12:12 PM	#2
Bamb0 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 2,072	Yes ppl need to reject this crap!!!