AGI might be a technological breakthrough, but what would be the business case for it? Is there one?
So far I have only seen it been thrown around to create hype.
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So far I have only seen it been thrown around to create hype.
Right now the AGI tech bros seem to me to be subscribed to some new weird religion. They take it on faith that some super intelligence is going to solve the world problems. We already have some really high IQ people today, and I don't see them doing much better than anybody else at solving the world's problems.
- Faster reading and writing speed
- Ability to make copies of the most productive workers
- No old age
- No need to sleep
- No need to worry about severance and welfare and human rights and breaks and worker safety
- Can be scaled up and scaled down and redeployed much more quickly
- Potentially lower cost, especially with adaptive compute
- Potentially high processing speed
Even if AGI has downsides compared to human labor, it might also have advantages that lead to widespread deployment.
Like, if I had an employee with low IQ, but this employee could work 24 hours around the clock learning and practicing, and they could work for 200 years straight without aging, and they could make parallel copies of themselves, surely there would have to be some tasks at which they're going to outperform humans, right?