Understanding ‘Understanding’
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'Understanding' is a 'suitcase word', and just like 'intelligence', has many quite distinct meanings that are 'thrown into a suitcase'.
What is AGI?
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60 years ago the ambition was to build machines that can learn and reason like humans. Human-level AI is now possible.
Personal Longevity: What can we do?
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Longevity is the concept of living a vital life for a longer than normal period. Why Longevity? That’s another story… How, then?
We Don’t Have Free Will. We Have Something Better.
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We have ‘self-aware, conceptual reasoning’, or SCR for short. Future machines that have SCR will also have moral agency.
Why aren’t more people working on AGI?
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Here is a list of some of the reasons, plus an analysis of why there seems to be so little progress in AGI development.
Human-level AI is possible
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Many people are sceptical that AI can ever achieve human-like intelligence. Key to solving the problem is having the right theory and approach.
AI will outpace us (but that’s ok)
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Improving computer-based intelligence will be significantly easier and faster than trying to hack human brains.
Why Machine Learning won’t cut it
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Current machine learning approaches will not get us to real AI. The kind that can truly understand you, and learn new knowledge by itself.
Improved Intelligence yields Improved Morality
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We actually need advanced AI to help guide us through this stage of human evolution, to help save us from ourselves.
No, you can’t get from Narrow AI to AGI
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Our real long-term goal is AGI – systems that can think, learn, adapt, and reason as well as, or better than, humans.