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What the F*ck Is Artificial General Intelligence?

4 hours ago
  • #AGI
  • #Machine Learning
  • #Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a debated field, often seen as a Rorschach test due to hype and speculation.
  • AGI is defined in terms of adaptation, likened to an artificial scientist, with foundational tools like search and approximation.
  • Key architectures for adaptive systems include o3, AlphaGo, AERA, NARS, and Hyperon.
  • Meta-approaches to AGI include scale-maxing (maximizing resources), simp-maxing (simplicity of form), and w-maxing (weakness of constraints).
  • Examples of these approaches include AIXI, the free energy principle, and the expansion of language models ('The Embiggening').
  • Current bottlenecks in AGI development are sample and energy efficiency, despite hardware improvements enabling progress.
  • The conclusion suggests AGI will emerge from a fusion of tools and meta-approaches, with scale-maxed approximation currently dominant.