It depicts one of HP Lovecraft’s tentacled monsters with a friendly little smiley face tacked on. “The “Shoggoth” meme illustrates the unknown that lies behind the sanitised public face of AI. And despite being nowhere near achieving this, and arguably stuck in a technological local maximum, this ambition is already producing understandable fears about AI taking over, enslaving or even destroying humanity, such as Ian Hogarth’s much-discussed essay in the Financial Times: Yet the AI race seems obsessed with spending vast amounts of monetary and computational resources to create fake sentience, fake will and fake AGI, rather than do all those less sexy things that machines do better than us. The creation of a new, individually distinct human brain, soul and will is indeed a miracle of evolution and bio-chemistry, but it is also remarkably easy and cheap to achieve. My co-founder Livio and I used to share an apartment in London in the 1990s that was close to a dreadful nightclub, so we were sometimes inadvertent witnesses to messy, drunken procreation activities in the alleyway next to our house. Lee considers the debate around AGI, AI as a platform and the immense potential of modular operations + AI to improve the way we build and manage organisations Making Brains vs Connecting Brains
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