Within all the frenzy chat around OpenAI in the last day we can pick up some rumours of AGI being here already. I have a hard time framing and visualizing what that would mean for people day-to-day.<p>Any real world examples what that would mean for an average person?
AGI should just mean general purpose AI as opposed to narrow AI. We know exactly what that is like. It's GPT-4, or whatever more powerful version follows it. There will be multiple levels and types.<p>People have sloppily associated AGI with ASI or artificial life. All of these things are different.<p>When AGI gets to the level of a person and other qualities of people, what will that be like? We have billions of examples of that. Look in the mirror to start.<p>The thing we need to be concerned about pretty soon is the truly lifelike AI that is hyperspeed and hyper connected. "Thinking" X times faster than any human, instantly exchanging info with a swarm of peers.<p>We are a bit far off from that but we really need to avoid building digital intelligent life with AI hardware that is too much faster than what we have now. And definitely we don't want to create something truly lifelike and with hyperspeed intelligence and enslave it. That would be incredibly stupid.