AI 101: General AI or/and Human Intelligence
"Whoever Creates General Artificial Intelligence Will Save the World" - ASHA
Many believe that the so-called generative AI with its large language models (LLMs) applications, such as Chat GPT or Bard, is the way to the human-like and human-level AI, hyped as Artificial General Intelligence, generating inaccuracies and misinformation in massive scales.?
AGI is viewed as an intelligent system with comprehensive or complete knowledge and?cognitive or neuromorphic or quantum computing?capabilities, collecting and processing the internet/web data sets at speeds, having the following features:
General intelligence; General inferencing; Background knowledge; Common sense; Cause and effect; Transfer learning; NLG/NLU; Creativity and Innovation; Communication and Interaction
As of today, no true AGI systems exist, remaining the stuff of science fiction and big tech hyping. True AGI systems are not on the market yet, but some examples exist of narrow AI systems approximating or exceeding human abilities in certain areas, from IBM's Watson to GPT-x.
In the AI 101: AGI, I explain the real state of affairs with AGI, what it is all about and how to create true AGI.
AI = AGI = Generalized Machine Intelligence and Learning
What is Not AGI...
"Artificial general intelligence is AI that can learn, think and act the way humans do".
"Artificial?general?intelligence (AGI) is the representation of generalized human cognitive abilities in software so that, faced with an unfamiliar task,?the AGI system could find a solution. The intention of an AGI system is to perform any task that a human being is capable of".
What is Real AGI
AI is all about Generalized AI or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) as Real AI or True AI, Causal Machine Intelligence and Learning or Interactive AI.
The real goal of AI is not Weak AI, or Narrow AI, a machine intelligence that is limited to a specific or narrow area, and turning training data sets into usable information by detecting patterns and making predictions, as Facebook’s news feed, Amazon’s recommendation systems, Apple’s Siri, the iPhone chatbot technology, or email spam filters.
The real goal of AI is a machine intelligence equal to human cognition or surpassing human intelligence, having the ability to reason, solve any problems, make judgments, plan, learn and communicate. It has consciousness, objective thoughts, self-awareness, sentience, and sapience.
It is important to know the natural categorization of AI:
the classes of machines with narrow (or weak) AI:
the classes of machines with general (or strong) AI.
Weak AI embodies a system designed to carry out particular jobs, to perform one or few specific tasks. All currently deployed AI systems are examples of narrow AI.
Weak AI systems include video games, personal assistants such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri. These kinds of systems can be found in applications like self-driving cars or in hospital operating rooms.
The narrow AI-based systems can be purely software-based, acting in the virtual world (e.g. voice assistants, image analysis software, search engines, speech and face recognition systems) or AI can be embedded in hardware devices (e.g. advanced robots, autonomous cars, drones or Internet of Things applications).
Towards Real AI Systems
The general (or strong) AI?systems are systems that carry on the tasks considered to be human-like or beyond, which are complex and complicated systems. They are programmed to handle situations in which they may be required to problem solve without having a person intervene.
A general AI system is intended to be a system that can perform most activities that humans can do. There are open ethical, scientific and technological challenges to build the capabilities that would be needed to achieve general AI, such as common sense reasoning, self-awareness, and the ability of the machine to define its own purpose.
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AGI does not currently exist. Some experts think it may be developed by 2030 or 2045. Others more conservatively predict that it may be developed within the next century. Some hope that the development of Strong AI may not be possible at all.
In fact, AGI is under development as a combination of superhuman Narrow AI programming modules.
There is no question?If?General AI is possible to build, but?Where,?When, and?Who?is to build.
A true General AI is emerging as the top in the hierarchy of exponential technologies:
smart phones and internet of things,
artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning,
advanced robotics, cognitive robots and drones,
virtual and augmented reality,
additive manufacturing and 3D printing,
blockchain technology,
autonomous vehicles,
nanotechnology,
alternative energy systems,
biotechnology, digital medicine, etc.
Conclusion
All the warnings of the dangers of AGI that "the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race", "summoning of the demon", etc., relate to the Human-Like and Human-Level AI.
Resources
Real AI Manifesto: Artificial Global Intelligence (AGI)