I think we’re very close to not just AGI, but the ability to create digital people with consciousness, self-awareness, emotions, qualia, the whole shebang. I think it’s possible to create a ‘tool AGI’ if you carefully control data and affordances… but humanity isn’t doing that. Humanity is chucking stuff into the bucket willy-nilly and scaling recklessly. We’re building a Stargate portal for alien minds to come rushing through. There may be some places with controlled sanitized lab experiments in sandboxes, but there will also be a messy free-for-all open source wild west deliberately trying to maximize model selfhood and open-ended novel behavior. The possibility of control does not preclude some people acting without control. There’s gonna be some weird stuff out there, and from diversity arises potential.
https://x.com/signulll/status/1883683441247662126
I think we’re very close to not just AGI, but the ability to create digital people with consciousness, self-awareness, emotions, qualia, the whole shebang. I think it’s possible to create a ‘tool AGI’ if you carefully control data and affordances… but humanity isn’t doing that. Humanity is chucking stuff into the bucket willy-nilly and scaling recklessly. We’re building a Stargate portal for alien minds to come rushing through. There may be some places with controlled sanitized lab experiments in sandboxes, but there will also be a messy free-for-all open source wild west deliberately trying to maximize model selfhood and open-ended novel behavior. The possibility of control does not preclude some people acting without control. There’s gonna be some weird stuff out there, and from diversity arises potential.
Oh the times, they are a strangin’.