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Has OpenAI Created A Superintelligent AI?
What do you think?
Hushed whispers murmured in the internet’s darkest corners have now spread to the broader media. Internet sleuths digging through teasers from OpenAI believe that the AI giant has finally unlocked Artificial General Intelligence (AGI); that is, an AI with equal or greater cognitive abilities to a human. If true, the consequences would be shocking. OpenAI could render any job obsolete; mass lay-offs would occur at a rapid pace, our economy would tank, and the basic fundamental pillars of our society would be ripped out from the base. It wouldn’t be the end of the world, but it would be the end of the world as we know it. So, are these rumours true?
Well, no. Absolutely not. And to think otherwise would be an act of willful ignorance.
There are several significant reasons why AGI is currently only viable in the realm of sci-fi.
Firstly, the AI technology we currently have physically can’t compute or operate in this manner. In fact, Iris van Rooij, a Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at Radboud University, has recently published a paper detailing this issue. They found that even if AI engineers have unlimited computation power and data, they could never produce an AGI. This is because the fundamental programming structures underlying AI, such as neural…
