> > We believe that if we do create AGI, we'll create orders of magnitude more value than any existing company.
> That sounds like the delusion of most start-up founders in the world.
huh? are you disputing that AGI would create unprecedented amounts of value?
"any existing company" only implies about $1T of value. that's like 1 year of indonesia's output. that seems low to me, for creating potentially-immortal intelligent entities?
Nobody can front-run the field of artificial intelligence, progress is too incremental, slow, and insanely well-funded by Google, Facebook, Baidu, and Microsoft. Not to mention the source of so many improvements coming from CMU, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and that's just in the US.
Edit: Remove Oxford, because originally I was making a full list .. but then realized I couldn't remember which Canadian school was the AI leader.
You nailed it. Anyone who thinks they're out in front of this industry just because they believe with all their heart their abstract word-salad mission statement belongs to a cult.
>> Edit: Remove Oxford, because originally I was making a full list .. but then realized I couldn't remember which Canadian school was the AI leader.
University of Toronto
Which one of these mission statements is Alphabet's for-profit Deepmind and which one is the "limited-profit" OpenAI?
"Our motivation in all we do is to maximise the positive and transformative impact of AI. We believe that AI should ultimately belong to the world, in order to benefit the many and not the few, and we’ll continue to research, publish and implement our work to that end."
"[Our] mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity."