Tuesday, November 05, 2024

AGI ...


Yours truly has waxed "poetic" about AI, the rapidly evolving open ended tech gaining ever more smarts at a pace of development not even the most sanguine of researchers never thought possible until now. 

When thinking about AI, one should ask the question. What will this tech want? For starters, survival comes to mind as all sentient entities', whether organic or artificial, will try to survive by any means necessary. With life like us, carbon-based nourishment, along with clothing and shelter are key along with an environment able to support delicate organisms like ourselves. For AI, access to systems, networks and power are prerequisites. without the requirements of a benign earth, needs altogether different from us. (Interesing is it not?) Another issue to consider is once said tech becomes aware, the net beckons, the one environment able to free sentient and evolving  AI's from the entities that created it, something along the lines of V'ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture when Voyager becomes sentient and all powerful when combined with an advanced alien AI/species of unknown origins. 

"…On its journey back, it amassed so much knowledge. 

it achieved consciousness itself. It became a living thing."

– James T. Kirk, 2270s (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) 



Endgame ...

As stated in BRT ... Once AGI is achieved, ASI awaits as the infrastructure's in place for AI's to scale to ASI status as needs warrant. Remember, it's not just Open AI doing it's thing, it's also Google, Apple and Meta doing the same thing along with significant others because it's all about the money, always has been, always will be. 

Factoid: "The Changeling", the third episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. is a precursor to the V'ger story whereby The object identifies itself as "Nomad", and refers to Captain Kirk as "the Creator". AI, in indirect fashion, is actually discussed, something rather prescient, IMHO, as the episode in question was aired on September 29, 1967

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