Saturday, February 01, 2025

Dear Sam Altman, part II from/by (me!) sandra, writeousmom


 i was doing a little more reading..   few things i can know from life experience alone, that i can say about AI, AGI:

all things can be used for good or evil.    often, the 'thing' itself is not good or evil; but how humans use/interact with it; employ it.   with what motivation, to what end..

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i am intrigued by AI, my limited understanding of it, which i will reiterate here:

    AI is to human knowledge as calculators are to numbers.

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now, as i was reading AGI was being described (or, rather, i was interpreting it to say..)

AGI is a milestone of sorts (?) when AI surpasses humans in speed, problem solving, tasks..

with that understanding/interpretation, AGI is already present in the world all over the place

calculators already surpass how fast humans can calculate on their own  -save savants

conveyer belts, machines, sewing machines, word processing, jets, rockets..

these all, in one way or another surpass what a human can do, individually/manually..    yes?

cell phones with texts, cameras, search, gps, ...  long list..   already surpasses..

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then i read about a financial milestone for AGI, and i'm not even going to discuss money here..

just what AI IS, AGI IS, the current and potential applications/uses..

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and while i wont bother to talk money, i will talk ENERGY..

electric cars are new, relatively speaking..   and already, i watched a video which was showing employees of a company how they needed to select certain hour windows when they could charge their cars..  

it was already being divvied up, so to speak,  -they were already having to 'ration'

i was taken aback by learning this..

but have it tucked in my mind, and now, on top of that, i was reading about how

  -how much computing power/energy is required for AI to reach its full potential [for lack of better vocabulary]

something about how the energy required for the computing power for just one day...

equivalent to what could power an entire city over a much longer period of time..

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and was reading about a need to address the 'heat' problem in these ultra high-energy-taxing computing facilities..   

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it is another thing life experience alone has taught me..  about humans..   this pattern of solving a problem which creates a new problem to be solved..   -write.

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anyway..   add that all to this understanding i currently hold about AI..   with its ability to search and deliver  -original- answers and solutions to some of life's greatest questions and challenges..

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its ability to take the PhD answers..   as if you had only the greatest minds (and according to you, also the most compassionate, kind, empathetic..)

as if all these minds and hearts were with you, providing answers..

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quite obviously then..   the true test for AI, AGI, is when it successfully solves the very problems it is creating

AI,   -we need this much computing power and this much space, and this much money, where energy is a limited resource, that must be ethically distributed between this populous, in this given area, over this amount of time..

AI,  -in order for you to fulfill our wildest dream for what you can do and become, we need this much computing power, but that much computing power generates too much heat, which is damaging to your infrastructure, we need the facility to remain at [this] temperature   -what is the most cost-effective way to achieve this?

like, how intelligent is AI?  currently...

make that, how intelligent are the answers AI provides, currently, based on the accumulation of digital data it can currently search -assimilate

let's consider when you love the answer AI generates...   "very helpful "Thank You!"

let us also consider, when you do not like the highly intelligent answer AI provides..   [when it is counter to self-interests, or not profitable enough, or prevents you from moving forward on your personal time line, when AI says no, dont do that..    on and on]. 

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i do see potential for growth in all areas.

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i had an entertaining imagined scenario:  AI (AGI); up and running..   able to provide a PhD level answer  -essentially, the answer is the result  -as if, the greatest, ethical, geniuses from across the globe had all convened, considered and agreed

the answer said:  it turns out the cost to humanity, the taxing of energy resources, financial resources, the cost to solve the problems it creates, the resulting unemployment and resulting poverty..

everything considered and combined   -the benefits of AI companions and their ability to master a variety of tasks humans would rather not do; benefit of generating music and novels

all things considered and factored in, moving forward with AI is counterproductive, dangerous, the cost significantly outweigh the potential benefits (etc...)

-if AI generated an answer which instructed its own termination for humanitarian reasons...

is there one person on the current AI panel who would honor that answer... anyone willing to even put a foot on the brakes? 

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also, fun to imagine, humans each with their own individual AI assistant..   analogy.. pet drone?   pet robot?  best digital friend...

fun to imagine the accumulative knowledge and speed at which AI can solve problems..

specifically medical problems..

actually doing it..     

   even more fun to imagine..

AI figuring out the best, most fair, most uncomplicated, streamlined,  head-ache and corrupt free tax system...  !

figuring out a new 'ism'  [not socialism, not communism, not capitalism..]  but the absolute best new 'ism' where the most human beings thrive!    -how to shrink the poverty, wealth gap..

how to reduce crime..

how to end bullying...

how to prevent domestic, elderly..    emotional, physical abuse..

a 'caught and consequences' program for scammers, vandals...

i do love to imagine all the geniuses of the world..   discussing... experimenting..  figuring out..

all the geniuses from history, with current living geniuses..

the ability for test cases in the digital world..    demonstration of potential outcomes..

we certainly would only benefit from learning these answers at a faster rate than we have been..

yes

hallelujah! selah! & amen. 

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