Award winning blogger, AI expert and attorney, Ralph Losey, considers the latest article by Dario Amodei, Chief Scientist and CEO of Anthropic. Amodei believes we need an AI MRI to be able to see the reasoning and inner workings of technology which may reach Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) on level with, or surpassing human intelligence.
Sam Altman’s 2024 Year End Essay: Reflections delves into OpenAI’s journey, AI’s transformative impact, and the path toward AGI. Ralph Losey analyzes Altman’s insights on progress, challenges, and the future of superintelligence.
In 2024, six visionary AI leaders—Huang, Amodei, Kurzweil, Altman, and Nobel laureates Hinton and Hassabis—drove advancements in AI, blending innovation with caution. Explore their influence on AI development, ethics, and the legal profession.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), if achieved, would surpass all previous inventions in history. AGI's unparalleled problem-solving abilities, potential for exponential knowledge and technology growth, enhancement of human capabilities, and significant ethical and societal impacts make it revolutionary. The legal profession stands to be profoundly transformed by AGI, heralding a new era of efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility in legal services.
Ray Kurzweil's latest book, "The Singularity is Nearer," continues exploring a future where human intelligence merges with AI. Kurzweil's bold predictions for AGI by 2029 and Singularity by 2045 promise a transformative era driven by nanotechnology and profound advancements in AI.
This is Part Three of the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between the elders would slow down AI and the young who would speed it up. Part Two shared the story of the visionary herald of AI. Ray Kurzweil: Google's prophet of superintelligent AI who will not slow down. In Part Three we share the story of Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang, the CEO and founder of NVIDIA, the U.S. chip manufacturer that makes super AI possible.
NVIDIA, now valued at over $1.3 Trillion, designs and builds new types of specialized, super-fast, neural net imitating chips. Jen-Hsun Huang, who now goes by Jensen Huang, faced great adversity as a nine-year old immigrant. He overcame these challenges to start Nvidia twenty years later. Jensen fears business failure, not AI, which he knows like the back of his hand. All the leading AI software companies like OpenAI and Google need his hardware for their LLM software to work. He and his scientist and engineers at Nvidia know more about what is going on in the AI industry that anyone. Here is Nvidia's 2023 marketing video that shows what they do. Click image or here to see to see the video.
This is Part Two of the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between those who would slow down AI and those who would speed it up. This is an age-old struggle between fear and hope, between those who seek to maintain the status quo and those who would disrupt it, who would bravely fly to the sun of superintelligence. See part one: Plato and Young Icarus Were Right: do not heed the frightening shadow talk giving false warnings of superintelligent AI.
In this second installment of the series, we hear from a principal proponent of the speed-up side, Ray Kurzweil, lead Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.