AI singularity may come in 2027 with artificial 'super intelligence' sooner than we think, says top scientist

[Judi Lynn]

AI singularity may come in 2027 with artificial 'super intelligence' sooner than we think, says top scientist

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published about 2 hours ago

We could build an AI that demonstrates generalized, human-level intelligence within three to eight years — which may open the door to a "super intelligence" in a very short space of time.


Humanity could create an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that is just as smart as humans in as soon as the next three years, a leading scientist has claimed.

Ben Goertzel, a computer scientist and CEO of SingularityNET, made the claim during the closing remarks at the Beneficial AGI Summit 2024 on March 1 in Panama City, Panama. He is known as the "father of AGI" after helping to popularize the term artificial general intelligence (AGI) in the early 2000s.

The best AI systems in deployment today are considered "narrow AI" because they may be more capable than humans in one area, based on training data, but can't outperform humans more generally. These narrow AI systems, which range from machine learning algorithms to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, struggle to reason like humans and understand context.

However, Goertzel noted AI research is entering a period of exponential growth, and the evidence suggests that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — where AI becomes just as capable as humans across several areas independent of the original training data — is within reach. This hypothetical point in AI development is known as the "singularity."

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https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-agi-singularity-in-2027-artificial-super-intelligence-sooner-than-we-think-ben-goertzel

[sop]

1. Singularity is "The Rapture for nerds."

[Javaman]

6. +1000 nt

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Will it shrink the shrinks?

[Blues Heron]

3. AI is just a fancy speak n spell

It’s great at looking stuff up but really isn’t inherently intelligent nor will it ever be. Check out the so called AI on bing- total moron level ai conclusions, but with the false confidence of a frat bro that read the cliff notes but not the book.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. It's easy to become complacent and think current performance defines a ceiling. . . . nt

[Blues Heron]

8. its easy to fall for the hype too

just sayin - dont believe everything you hear about the vaunted singularity...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. "nor will it ever be": Did 20 years ago you say they'd never be able to understand speech?

I don't know if you did or not. But again, you have set a low ceiling.

Do you know how they work, how they mimic brain structure? Do you have an idea of how animals and humans are intelligent? Or do you, as many do, suppose there is some supernatural spark they get endowed with by a sky creature?

The "singularity" is separate from the AI issue. Some commentators link them, but nobody alive today will be able to transfer the consciousness to some machine.

[Blues Heron]

11. Computers always give the illusion of intelligence when it's just a quick lookup in a hash table.

Garbage in, garbage out.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. And you ducked. Okay. . . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Sorry, reply to wrong post.

[Ray Bruns]

4. I for one welcome our new computer overlords.

[Warpy]

5. Then again, there's this

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/yes-ai-models-can-get-worse-over-time/

I'm not posting an excerpt, the article should be read.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15245-z is another good one, albeit with more Newspeak.

AI seems to have an inherent bias that tells it to discard any data that seems extraneous, meaning less often used words. Leave it up and running for long enough, it won't generate Shakespeare, it will reduce down to pronouns, prepositions, articles, and maybe a few verbs on the level of "be" or "go." Come the Robot Apocalypse, all we need to do is hide until the whole thing degenerates completely and becomes totally paralyzed, unable to talk to itself or formulate any nefarious actions. A I seems to be siding with hidden flaws.