It explores the possible scenarios, debates the moral, philosophical and ethical implications of AGI, and explains what the commercial and academic AI community are doing now to try and ensure this is good thing for humanity. Most of Life 3.0 is about what could happen to humanity if General Artificial Intelligence (AGI) is discovered. When you’re doing one of those CAPTCHA tests after filling in an online form, using transcription software, or a tool like DALL-E 2 (which generates images from text instructions), you’re interacting with machine learning algorithms. A subset of machine learning called ‘deep learning’ uses neural networks to find patterns in vast quantities of data, and become better at finding patterns over time. There is a middle ground emerging between ‘narrow’ and ‘general’ AI in the form of machine learning. You can read more about it in this paper. This concept is known as ‘singularity’, and is quite controversial. This kind of AI would probably takeover humans. This is where AI can take on a life of its own, and create its own solutions to things. They don’t know if it’s possible, but if it is, human life will change rapidly and forever. This is what the AI community is researching today. This is where the majority of AI stands today. Each system can accomplish a specific goal, e.g. When aggregated, these functions represent something similar to human thought.Īt the software level, machines are given algorithms and vast quantities of data so that they can practice, learn and get better at these functions. To make this review as accessible as possible, I want to give a brief explanation of what artificial intelligence is, and where it stands today.įundamentally, it is about teaching machines to think and act as humans do.Īt the atomic level, this is achieved by programming computers with neurons and patterns which, by obeying the laws of logic and physics, implement and perform functions. Maybe on computers, which can follow similar patterns, functions, and processes? Or, as he explains in his Ted Talk, “consciousness is a mathematical pattern.”įollowing this mindset, if intelligence and consciousness are just atoms moving around, then they can be replicated, right? This means that human existence - including our thoughts and feelings - can be boiled down to atoms and particles.
The first thing you need to know about Max Tegmark is that he doesn’t think like the rest of us.Ī professor of physics at MIT and president of the Future of Life Institute, (FLI) he believes that at a fundamental level, “everything is simply matter and energy moving around.”
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