They say that he who creates AGI will control the entire world. I wouldn’t want America to dominate earth with their misaligned AI.
AGI as things stand currently is a pipe dream and corporations like OpenAI making grand mission statements about AGI is nothing but a gimmick to boost their stock value and to sound like a corporation that cares about “ethics” (think Google’s “do no evil”).
AI is useful in specialised applications. Like this: China puts trust in AI to maintain largest high-speed rail network on Earth
Anyone hawking AGI is a conman like how Musk peddles techno-utopianism when talking about “colonising Mars” while being high on ketamine.
I don’t think China is trying to race America [in anything honestly]. The US is like a schoolyard kid saying they beat you in a competition you weren’t even aware of. As a somewhat tangential example, look at their recent strides in the chip industry. They didn’t do this out of some desire to beat western manufacturers, they just did it because it was necessary with the US trying to cut off their supply.
As far as AI, China seems to be more interested in using AI for pretty dedicated tasks, which AI can actually be a useful tool for. They don’t see the benefit of trying to generally replace people, so aren’t. Not that there aren’t researchers focusing on that kind of thing there too I am sure, but it doesn’t seem to be of widespread interest right now.
Any AGI that is not based on dialectical materialism will be flawed, if it could be called AGI at all. As the US rejects DiaMat, I can’t see how it will be able to get close to AGI. Training any such machine on western bourgeois thought is ultimately doomed as the result will be detached from reality. Essentially, the western world runs on wishful thinking and that’s a poor foundation for predictive modelling.
Yeah, this is more or less the hunch I have as well. The US models will be trained on liberalism and so will not be as effective as what China makes.
I strongly disagree with the comments claiming an “AGI” isn’t possible in the near future, but the premise is silly. The assertion that having additional “general intelligences” will somehow magically mean global domination is baseless.
The problem is if the bourgeoisie can get a fully automated army, from logistics to robot production to the war bots themselves.
So we probably still have a couple decades until that, but starting now there can be a lot more propaganda and high effectivity targeted action by using AIs already, which could make our advancement to communism harder depending on how much the AIs can help people the people too.
Says who? Is this shit really a race now? lol.
We’d all better hope so, because the US will not use the proper precautions and get everyone killed by a paperclip maximizer or whatever.
