I recently came across the following two articles and, rather fortuitously, ended up reading them in quick succession:
1. A fascinating account of journey of Demis Hassabis, the founder of Deep Mind (now Google's), towards the elusive and alluring goal of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI).
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/deepmind-and-google-the-battle-to-control-artificial-intelligence
2. A fascinating (albeit in an entirely different way!) about the surprisingly prevalent and growing group of people who feel vindicated in denying even elementary scientific facts such as "earth is round". For the record, I did not even know that I am a 'globetard' :(
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/looking-for-life-on-a-flat-earth
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Nothing better highlights this strange conundrum of information age. While we are on a quest to deconstruct and expand the fundamental core of intelligence at the disposal of human civilization, by actualizing it in agents presumably free of human limitations, we simultaneously grapple with our own stupidity and shun essentially everything rational. I wonder if this signals that it would be AHS (Average Human Stupidity), and not AGI, that will finally push us over the edge into The Singularity.
If an alien civilization were observing us, it would find this absolutely incredible!
1. A fascinating account of journey of Demis Hassabis, the founder of Deep Mind (now Google's), towards the elusive and alluring goal of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI).
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/deepmind-and-google-the-battle-to-control-artificial-intelligence
2. A fascinating (albeit in an entirely different way!) about the surprisingly prevalent and growing group of people who feel vindicated in denying even elementary scientific facts such as "earth is round". For the record, I did not even know that I am a 'globetard' :(
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/looking-for-life-on-a-flat-earth
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Nothing better highlights this strange conundrum of information age. While we are on a quest to deconstruct and expand the fundamental core of intelligence at the disposal of human civilization, by actualizing it in agents presumably free of human limitations, we simultaneously grapple with our own stupidity and shun essentially everything rational. I wonder if this signals that it would be AHS (Average Human Stupidity), and not AGI, that will finally push us over the edge into The Singularity.
If an alien civilization were observing us, it would find this absolutely incredible!
