How do we know there even are significantly higher levels of intelligence to go to, since nothing much more intelligent than humans has ever existed?
Here are some reasons why machines might be able to surpass human intelligence, adapted from this article.
Free choice of substrate enables improvements (e.g. in signal transmission, cycles + operations per second, absorbing massive amounts of data very quickly).
“Supersizing:” Machines have (almost) no size restrictions. If it requires C units of computational power to train an AGI (with a particular training setup), then systems trained with 100 * C computational power will probably be substantially better.
Avoiding certain cognitive biases like confirmation bias.Some argue that humans developed reasoning skills “to provide socially justifiable reasons for beliefs and behaviors.”
Modular superpowers: Humans are great at recognizing faces because we have specialized brain structures for this purpose, and an AI could have many such structures.
Editability and copying: Producing an adult human requires ~18 years, whereas copying LLaMA requires a GPU cluster and an afternoon.
Better algorithms? Evolution is the only process that has produced systems with general intelligence. And evolution is arguably much much slower than human innovation at its current rate. Also “first to cross the finish line” does not imply “unsurpassable upper bound.”
Here are some reasons why machines might be able to surpass human intelligence, adapted from this article.
Free choice of substrate enables improvements (e.g. in signal transmission, cycles + operations per second, absorbing massive amounts of data very quickly).
“Supersizing:” Machines have (almost) no size restrictions. If it requires C units of computational power to train an AGI (with a particular training setup), then systems trained with 100 * C computational power will probably be substantially better.
Avoiding certain cognitive biases like confirmation bias. Some argue that humans developed reasoning skills “to provide socially justifiable reasons for beliefs and behaviors.”
Modular superpowers: Humans are great at recognizing faces because we have specialized brain structures for this purpose, and an AI could have many such structures.
Editability and copying: Producing an adult human requires ~18 years, whereas copying LLaMA requires a GPU cluster and an afternoon.
Better algorithms? Evolution is the only process that has produced systems with general intelligence. And evolution is arguably much much slower than human innovation at its current rate. Also “first to cross the finish line” does not imply “unsurpassable upper bound.”