The computer scientist who popularized the term artificial general intelligence (AGI) believes that it could arrive as early as 2029.
Though such a point may seem far off, he lists a number of reasons why he believes it could happen so quickly. According to Goertzel, the reason for this is because we are in a period of exponential rather than linear growth, which can be more difficult to wrap your head around and comprehend the speed of change.
“In the next decade or two [it] seems likely an individual computer will have roughly the compute power of a human brain by 2029, 2030,” Goertzel
Goertzel cites large language models (LLMs) such as
However, he believes that LLMs could be a component of AGI that moves us towards the
“One thing we can plausibly teach a Hyperon system to do is design and write software code,” Goertzel wrote in an unreviewed preprint paper posted to
Goertzel has concerns about this, as well as excitement for it. Proper safeguards would need to be in place before we let
“My own view is once you get to human-level AGI, within a few years you could be at radically superhuman AGI, unless the AGI threatens to throttle its own development out of its own conservatism,” Goertzel added in his talk.
“I think once an AGI can introspect its own mind, then it can do engineering and science at a human or superhuman level. It should be able to make a smarter AGI, then an even smarter AGI, then [there would be] an intelligence explosion. That may lead to an increase in the exponential rate beyond even what [computer scientist Ray Kurzweil] thought.”
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