The rise of artificial general intelligence – now seen as inevitable in Silicon Valley – will bring change that is “orders of magnitude” greater than anything the world has yet seen, observers say. But are we ready?<\/p>\n
AGI – defined as artificial intelligence<\/strong> with human cognitive abilities, as opposed to more narrow artificial intelligence<\/strong>, such as the headline-grabbing ChatGPT – could free people from menial tasks and usher in a new era of creativity.<\/p>\n But such a historic paradigm shift could also threaten jobs and raise insurmountable social issues, experts warn.<\/p>\n “But what we’re looking at now is intelligence itself… This is the first time we’re able to create intelligence itself and increase its amount in the universe,” he said.<\/p>\n Change, as a result, will be “orders of magnitude greater than every other technological change we’ve ever had in history.”<\/p>\n And such an exciting, frightening shift is a “double-edged sword,” Chen said, envisioning using AGI to tackle climate change, for example, but also warning that it is a tool that we want to be as “steerable as possible.”<\/p>\n It was the release of ChatGPT<\/strong> late last year that brought the long dreamt of idea of AGI one giant leap closer to reality.<\/p>\n OpenAI, the company behind the generative software that churns out essays, poems and computing code on command, this week released an even more powerful version of the tech that operates it – GPT-4.<\/p>\n It says the technology will not only be able to process text but also images, and produce more complex content such as legal complaints or video games.<\/p>\n As such it “exhibits human-level performance” on some benchmarks, the company said. Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"