ChatGPT signifies a God-like entity for OpenAI. There is a race among tech companies to attain a lofty concept of artificial general intelligence (AGI) that either matches the cognitive capabilities of humans or surpass it. The top management of tech companies were striving for financial prosperity that could be beneficial to humanity.
Despite the noble intentions, it goes without saying that the efforts of the tech companies put their financial results first and foremost. The altruistic objectives seem to have fallen by wayside. The generative AI boom has become a race to win.
There are various opinions about the timeline to achieve AGI. Anthropic sees it coming by 2027. Altman of OpenAI puts it away ‘by a thousand days’. SoftBank predicts a two-three years’ timeline. All these leaders are not settled about one definition of AGI. Hassabis treats it as software that can perform at ‘human level.’ Altman feels AGI would ‘outperform humans.’ Microsoft calls it ‘nonsensical benchmark hacking.’ AI’s top leaders dance around various definitions of these North Star, while continuing to move towards it. Some draw a gloomy picture by associating it with existential threat. The door is vaguely defined. The consequences are not known.
There is no evidence that any of the existing players have AGI, but they are confident that once there they will tackle the most complex problems facing the world — cancer cure, climate change.
In their attempt to build AGI, the existing players strived towards building the bigger models in the hope that the bigger is better.
The idea should not be to build gods since the benefits are still not certain
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