, and philosophy.īut this morning, I woke up to another reification, a Twitter thread expressing the Alt Intelligence creed aloud, from Nando de Freitas, a brilliant high-level executive at DeepMind, the rightly revered AI wing of Alphabet, in a statement that AI is “all about scale now.” I’ve seen signs for some time of the disdain with which today’s AI superstars, and indeed large parts of the entire field of AI, treat human cognition, ignoring and even ridiculing scientists in fields like linguistics, cognitive psychology, anthropology. There’s nothing new about studying Alt Intelligence per se, but the hubris that comes with it is. The idea that the bigger the system, the closer we get to true intelligence, maybe even consciousness. “Right now the most important work within Alt Intelligence is the idea of scaling. Meanwhile, Gary Marcus, founder of Robust.AI and author of Rebooting AI, added to the debate over his new Substack, with his first post devoted to discussing current efforts to develop AGI (including Gato AI), which he ” alt intelligence”: (6) therefore we cannot predict how long it will take to reach HLAI.” Current AGI efforts as “alt intelligence” (5) but we don’t know how many such new concepts are needed. (4) some of those new concepts may be “just around the corner” (e.g. (3) we are still missing some fundamental concepts It is necessary but not sufficient, because…. (1) the research community is making some progress towards HLAI Achieving “Human Level AI” can be a useful goal, but even humans are specialized. “On the raging debate about the significance of recent advances in AI, it may be helpful to (re)state a few obvious facts: Yann LeCun, the French computer scientist who is the chief AI scientist at Meta, had this to say (on Facebook, of course): Numerous experts reject De Freitas’ claims and those of others who insist that AGI or its equivalent is close.
Or, as he wrote on Twitter“It’s all about scale now! It’s all about these models bigger, safer, more computationally efficient, faster sampling, smarter memory, more modalities, innovative data, on/offline… Solving these challenges is what AGI will deliver.” Pushback on AGI and scaling Last Friday, Nando De Freitas, a principal investigator at Google’s DeepMind AI division, tweeted that “The game is over!” in the decades-long quest for AGI, after DeepMind unveiled its new Gato AI, capable of complex tasks ranging from stacking blocks to writing poetry.Īccording to De Freitas, Gato AI simply needs to be scaled up to create an AI that rivals human intelligence.
This is wishful thinking… the time to prepare is now.” DeepMind says ‘game over’ for AGIĬoincidentally, the past week has been filled with claims, counter-claims and critiques of claims about the potential to make AGI a reality in the near term.
will be like a digital descendant who shares a very human core. The column, written by Louis Rosenberg, founder of Unanimous AI, was certainly bolstered not only by its SEO-friendly title, but also by its breathless opener: “An alien species is headed for planet Earth and we have no reason to believe that it will be friendly Some experts predict it will be there within 30 years while others argue it will arrive much sooner No one knows what it will look like but it will share two important traits with us humans: it will be intelligent and be self-aware.”īut a more in-depth lecture reveals Rosenberg’s focus on some of the hottest AI debates today, including the potential for AGI in our lives and why organizations should prepare for AI ethics: “…while there is serious effort in AI community to push for secure technologies, there is also a lack of urgency, which is because too many of us mistakenly believe that a sentient AI created by humanity is somehow a branch of the human tree.
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