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Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End
"The vast investments in scaling... always seemed to me to be misplaced."
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This, more or less, is the line being taken by AI researchers in a recent survey. Asked whether "scaling up" current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human cognition, an overwhelming 76 percent of respondents said it was "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to succeed.
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https://futurism.com/ai-researchers-...ustry-dead-end
I wonder how much closer we are to AGI than we were 10 years ago. Has way too much money been chasing a dead end? I'm not at all suggesting current models aren't useful, but I've never really bought into the idea that they were the path to AGI any more than the Mechanical Turk was. They are just getting to be better imitators.
I guess the reality is, perhaps given the current global situation, that it's better AGI doesn't exist. We are well on our way to a dystopian catastrophe, adding AGI into it when the US government is a puppet of the technocracy seems a very dangerous game.