Tag: AGI

  • Is Superhuman Intelligence a Contradiction in Terms or Just an Ill-Conceived idea?

    Is Superhuman Intelligence a Contradiction in Terms or Just an Ill-Conceived idea?

     Much current concern revolves around when superhuman intelligence will come and what will happen to humanity once it does. As I have argued in my article The Hard Problem of AI and the Possibility of Social Robots, we are not presently making any progress on AGI because we have not yet started to address the…

  • To the Moon – is AGI really inevitable? 

    To the Moon – is AGI really inevitable? 

    Much current discussion revolves around when we will see Artificial General Intelligence and how that will affect us. The current edition of the Economist (July 26th 2025 edition) is dedicated to that topi. It reports how Investment centers around building ever bigger data centers to run ever bigger models on ever bigger amounts of data.…

  • Virus, Fungus, Critter or Pet? – AI is not going to be human like anyway

    Rather than speculate and debate intensely about Artificial General Intelligence or Superhuman Intelligence and whether or when it will take over the world, it may make sense to look more broadly at the different possible types of machine intelligence. If we apply artificial intelligence in a system responding to human input, such as doing a…

  • What it would take for AI to take our jobs?

    What it would take for AI to take our jobs?

    AI-powered tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney’s image generator have incredible abilities, leading to mainstream fears of AI taking over the world. Talk on online media and social media alike is not about whether AI will replace humans but when they will do so and whether this will be good or bad or even leave any…