“It is uncertain how soon #artificialgeneralintelligence can be achieved. We worry that #SiliconValley has grown so enamored with accomplishing this goal that it’s alienating the general public and, worse, bypassing crucial opportunities to use the #technology … ” open.substack.com/pub/programm...

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Programmable Mutter
At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb.

Ars Technica

>>> But inference engines are now out of fashion, because they rely (at least, for now) on human curated knowledge bases, and lack the facile fluency of #LLMs.

I do not believe that we can achieve #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #AGI without a semantic layer comprising at least an explicit ontology, a semantic model, and an auditable, sourced, set of inference rules.

I think #LLMs are probably a dead end. And I think they are distracting from technologies which could be genuinely useful.

I just asked ChatGPT

"With what probability is the George Washington Bridge the final digit of pi?"

and it used MY OPPONENTS' argument that this kind of question is "ill-formed" to justify MY conclusion (on grounds that require NON-VERBAL REASONING) that the answer is "zero".

This idiot database search program obviously is simply copying things that people have said. ELIZA did a more presentable job of it.

#science #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence

AIXI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI

"AIXI /ˈaɪksi/ is a theoretical mathematical formalism for artificial general intelligence. It combines Solomonoff induction with sequential decision theory. AIXI was first proposed by Marcus Hutter in 2000[...]."

"[...]AIXI is incomputable."

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Gödel #AGI #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence

AIXI - Wikipedia

WRITER FUEL: Predictions on the dawn of the AI singularity vary wildly but scientists generally say it will come before 2040, according to new analysis, slashing 20 years off previous predictions.

https://www.limfic.com/2025/06/17/writer-fuel-how-close-are-we-to-true-ai/

#WriterFuel #StoryIdeas #Writers #Authors @ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence