AGI

The motto of this blog is Unearthing the essence. When I sit to write, I like to think that I embark on a quest to dig deep into the meaning of things. Metaphorically, I see myself as a paleontologist excavating to find the relevant bones to reconstruct a dinosaur while ignoring the many misleading fossils nearby.

Every minute, millions of news articles are produced and disseminated. Only an infinitesimal fraction will have relevant consequences years into the future, while the majority will be just noise, like the irrelevant bone fragments.

I believe that one of the most consequential developments will be Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): a system capable of solving complex problems across multiple fields at a human level. Daily lives and jobs will change in imaginable ways when intelligence becomes a commodity available to anyone.

The following is an extraction from a blog post from Sam Altman:

The world will not change all at once; it never does. Life will go on mostly the same in the short run, and people in 2025 will mostly spend their time in the same way they did in 2024. We will still fall in love, create families, get in fights online, hike in nature, etc.

But the future will be coming at us in a way that is impossible to ignore, and the long-term changes to our society and economy will be huge. We will find new things to do, new ways to be useful to each other, and new ways to compete, but they may not look very much like the jobs of today. 

Agency, willfulness, and determination will likely be extremely valuable. Correctly deciding what to do and figuring out how to navigate an ever-changing world will have huge value; resilience and adaptability will be helpful skills to cultivate.

AGI is a wave forming on the horizon, growing steadily closer. How we prepare now will determine whether we ride its crest or get swept away. 🏄‍♂️