A recent essay called “Keep the Future Human” made a compelling case for avoiding building AGI in the near future and building tool AI instead.
The main point of the essay is that AGI is the intersection of three key capabilities:
High autonomy
High generality
High intelligence
It argues that these three capabilities are dangerous when combined together and pose unacceptable risks to the job market and culture of humanity and would replace rather than augment humans. Instead of building AGI, the essay recommends building powerful but controllable tool-like AI that has only one or two of the three capabilities. For example:
Driverless cars are autonomous and intelligent but not general.
AlphaFold is intelligent but not autonomous or general.
GPT-4 is intelligent and general but not autonomous.
It also recommends compute limits to limit the overall capability of AIs.
A recent essay called “Keep the Future Human” made a compelling case for avoiding building AGI in the near future and building tool AI instead.
The main point of the essay is that AGI is the intersection of three key capabilities:
High autonomy
High generality
High intelligence
It argues that these three capabilities are dangerous when combined together and pose unacceptable risks to the job market and culture of humanity and would replace rather than augment humans. Instead of building AGI, the essay recommends building powerful but controllable tool-like AI that has only one or two of the three capabilities. For example:
Driverless cars are autonomous and intelligent but not general.
AlphaFold is intelligent but not autonomous or general.
GPT-4 is intelligent and general but not autonomous.
It also recommends compute limits to limit the overall capability of AIs.
Link: https://keepthefuturehuman.ai/