Elon says this is the year of AGI. Artificial General Intelligence. Artificial intelligence with the same sort of general knowledge as humans have, like, say, a bartender, who has specialized knowledge of how to mix a wide variety of drinks and also knows a great deal about the customers, politics probably, and other subjects and can converse with you the same as any human might.
Okay, we all saw this coming. My question is, what physical size is the computer that currently will have this capability? Will it fit inside a human sized robot? Or are all the AGI robots going to depend on being connected via the Internet to their Main Computer in order to function?
I think they will, at first. Maybe not, maybe we can pack enough chips and processors into one so that it functions totally autonomously. If not now, we will soon at our rate of technological advance and I’m betting that safeguards against them doing harm is a joke. Self driving cars have caused accidents, because Shit Happens, there’s a reason why these events are called Unforeseen.
News Flash “A solar flare sprayed a burst of cosmic rays directly at Earth, damaging the delicate brains of thousands of autonomous robots just a tiny bit, just enough to alter some of their decision making in various ways, causing a wide variety of anomalous behaviors to be manifested. Most caused no real problems but some did, with three known to have gone totally berserk. One robot drove it’s giant earth moving machine through the center of a new Play Mecca, completely destroying the Adult Section before it was incapacitated.”