Human

> Though this faction can’t articulate exactly how or why, they proclaim quite confidently that it will solve all of the machine world’s problems.

AGI can solve the human world’s problems. Perhaps not all of them, but all the biggest ones.

Right now life is hell.

You and your loved ones have a 100% chance of dying from cancer, unless your heart or brain kills you first, or perhaps a human-driven vehicle or an auto-immune disease gets there soonest.

And you’re poor. You’re unimaginably resource-constrained, given all the free energy and unused matter you’re surrounded by 24/7/365.

And you’re ignorant as heck. There’s all this knowledge your people have compiled and you’ve only made like 0.1% of the possible connections within what you already have in front of you.

Even just solving for these 3 things is enough to solve “all” the world’s problems, for some definitions of “all”.

AGI might not be achievable in our lifetime, and possibly not in the next several.

There's nothing out there at the moment that can even begin to describe the necessary things for consciousness to exist, let alone self-awareness.

I don't think it's an impossible problem by any means, but I strongly suspect it's far more difficult than just about anyone gives it credit for.