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Dil Green's avatar

Excellent! So we've had one kind of AGI for 350 years, and another kind for about a century and a half: https://hackernoon.com/the-parable-of-the-paperclip-maximizer-3ed4cccc669a

Both of which are currently orders of magnitude more effective that the new sort.

And all of them depend on humans for delivery, though the latest one may differ on that front.

Raising the thought that it is autonomy, not intelligence, which is the concern.

The most interesting / nervousness inspiring work is going on in robotics, where embodied models learning from physical reality systems and LLMs are being harnessed together.

Trevor E Hilder's avatar

Hi Dil,

What’s “another kind for about a century and a half”?

I am probably being a bit stupid, but I don’t understand what that is???

Regards,

Trevor

Dil Green's avatar

The hackernoon piece basically claims that the finance capital system is a form of AGI

Stephen's avatar

Very enjoyable post Trevor!

Trevor E Hilder's avatar

Kind of you to say so, Stephen