Nothing to be scared of, yet. Just some backstory!


> Gubrud did manage to claim credit in naming AGI. In the mid-2000s, Gubrud himself called it to the attention of those popularizing the term. As Legg puts it, “Somebody pops up out of the woodwork and says, ‘Oh, I came up with the term in ‘97,' and we're like, 'Who the hell are you?' And then sure enough, we looked it up, and he had a paper that had it. So [instead of inventing it] I kind of reinvented the term." (Legg of course is the cofounder and chief AGI scientist at Google’s DeepMind.)

Wait... everyone is still obsessed with AGI? I thought we left that behind in June. I thought we all knew by now that it's a mirage to keep people afraid?

optimism

I've always said China's gonna take over the world bit by bit, on their own time, but I don't think we'll be alive to see it happen. A system that can control its own people like that has a huge advantage. The drama continues, don't miss the next episode, because I won't either. Ah

The dangers will be largely ignored because the race to achieve AGI before China is now the last chance for the declining west to maintain its global hegemony military industrial hegemony.

Chinas mixed economy looks very likely to win this race just as it has won on rare earths, robotics, nuclear, wind, hydro and solar power generation, manufacturing, shipping, infrastructure, EVs, PVs, batteries, LEDs and nearly every other high tech sector.

Solomonsatoshi

Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat.

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines think like humans. One of them, John McCarthy, coined the term “artificial intelligence.” This legendary meeting and the naming of a new field, is well known.

In this century, a variation of the term has stepped to the forefront: artificial general intelligence, or AGI—the stage at which computers can match or surpass human intelligence. AGI was the driver of this week’s headlines: a deal between OpenAI and Microsoft that hinged on what happens if OpenAI achieves it; massive capital expenditures from Meta, Google, and Microsoft to pursue it; the thirst to achieve it helping Nvidia to become a $5 trillion company. US politicians have said if we don’t get it before China does, we’re cooked. Prognosticators say we might get it before the decade is out, and it will change everything. The origin of that term, however, and how it was originally defined, is not so well-known. But there is a clear answer to that question. The person who first came up with the most important acronym of the 21st century so far— as well as a definition that is still pretty much the way we think of it today—is unfamiliar to just about everybody. This is his story.

> Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat.
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> In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines think like humans. One of them, John McCarthy, coined the term “artificial intelligence.” This legendary meeting and the naming of a new field, is well known.
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> In this century, a variation of the term has stepped to the forefront: artificial general intelligence, or AGI—the stage at which computers can match or surpass human intelligence. AGI was the driver of this week’s headlines: a deal between OpenAI and Microsoft that hinged on what happens if OpenAI achieves it; massive capital expenditures from Meta, Google, and Microsoft to pursue it; the thirst to achieve it helping Nvidia to become a $5 trillion company. US politicians have said if we don’t get it before China does, we’re cooked. Prognosticators say we might get it before the decade is out, and it will change everything. The origin of that term, however, and how it was originally defined, is not so well-known. But there is a clear answer to that question. The person who first came up with the most important acronym of the 21st century so far— as well as a definition that is still pretty much the way we think of it today—is unfamiliar to just about everybody. This is his story.
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https://www.wired.com/story/the-man-who-invented-agi/