The Hidden Limits of SuperIntelligence & Why It Might Never Happen

In the last two articles of our series on decoding AGI and Superintelligence, we first started with the limitations of LLMs followed by the nature of intelligence. We presented a lot of arguments and gave an extremely detailed analysis of the implausibility of intelligence explosion and the hard limits put on all the superintelligent machines by their environment. But today we are going to go one step further and understand more about the hidden limits of Superintelligence, and Consciousness.

The limitations of artificial intelligence (AI) have been a significant topic of discussion among researchers and theorists. This article brings together some of the critical arguments from top scientists around the world on the implausibility of an intelligence explosion and why AI will never be conscious like humans. This article aims to introduce the readers to a bunch of high-level ideas and let them discover from there onwards.

So, amidst the awe and excitement, a profound question lingers: Can AI ever truly understand the world as humans do, Can AI truly become Conscious in the future?

Topics Covered

• Conscious Machines Are Only Possible If We Accept Panpsychism
• Causal Reasoning Won’t Fix It
• Computational Irreducibility
• Non-Computability and Quantum Considerations
• Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness