Gigaom AI Minute – February 27

Transcript

The range on when people think we will get an artificial general intelligence ranges from five to five hundred years. Generally speaking, people who think it is coming sooner are in the camp of people who are most likely to be concerned about it, and think that it's potentially a threat to humanity. Why do people disagree so much on this question? I think it boils down to five distinct reasons, and I'd like to cover each one of them in an AI Minute episode.

Number five, are we already on a path to building an AGI? Or, to put it another way, do we have a narrow AI like we have today that we make a little better, a little better, a little better, a little better and then one day we have a general intelligence? Are we on an evolutionary path from the point where we are right now to a general intelligence? People who think that it's going to happen relatively soon and may be a threat, generally think we're already on our way to building it. People who think it's further out and less of a threat suggest that a general intelligence is a very different thing than a narrow intelligence and we haven't even begun to start thinking about how to build one.