Just a friendly reminder: it's quite possible that any "artificial general intelligence" human beings are ever able to create has exactly the same "shortcomings" that human intelligence has. It could be that these "shortcomings" are not shortcomings at all, but inherent in what we call "intelligence". At this point we don't know, though there are good reasons to believe this might be the case, and the precautionary principle suggests we take this possibility seriously.
We are, collectively, prone to believing that artificial general intelligence will embody all the best qualities of (what we think of as) the best people who have ever lived, while simultaneously having none of what we think of as negative qualities. They'll have the creativity of the best artists, the game-playing skills of chess grandmasters or Go 9-dans; they'll have physical prowess beyond gold-medal-winning Olympians, all wrapped up in a humanoid package that, for unexplained reasons, will be kind and graceful while happily doing our hard work for us.
What we are talking about in that case is a deity, not a machine or a tool. That's not artificial intelligence, it's angelic intelligence.
I think it is very important right now to guard against magical thinking and deification when considering what artificial intelligence is or could be. Even world leaders seem to be rapidly falling into dangerous patterns of thought, attributing god-like powers to computer systems that are only slightly better mimics than the Mechanical Turk.
#AI #AGI #artificialintelligence #intelligence
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