#pseudoagi — Public Fediverse posts

It's funny how we thought a year or two ago that one of the main challenges with AI is mass unemployment, and there were some voices saying it's not going to happen, and people should definitely learn creative professions and art because that will certainly be safe from automation.

The #TechnologicalSingularity that is starting now with the #PseudoAGI #LLM #chatbots such as #ChatGPT, #GPT4 and numerous analogues showed so many of these assumptions wrong.

We would have done better if we had properly imagined life with strong AI everywhere and extrapolated to that. Instead what we did was that we took existing, deployed machine learning solutions and imagined the world where those are everywhere, assuming no exponential advancement. As far as future studies are still relevant, some corrections to methodologies are probably in order.

Now, in addition to coming mass unemployment starting from artists, customer interfaces, executives, management and life coaches among other things, we have an arms race to AGI because that promises sovereign privilege in the coming world in all domains from business, intelligence, warfare, economy and industry.

We need the best people to navigate us successfully through this. We need not only to act fast, but also act correctly, and there is no substitute to having an experienced person advising through this storm.