Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
by derefr on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:02AM
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The moon program wasn’t solving a “real problem” in any sense, but the offshoot R&D of achieving this practically meaningless feat solved a lot of “real problems” by advancing a lot of technologies.
What makes you think that an AGI program won’t have the same kind of offshoot-technology impact on the world? It’s not like it would go “nothing ... wait for it... AGI”; there’d be a lot of tools, processes, and paradigms developed along the way, and also lesser AIs developed that might solve real problems for e.g. government resource allocation or military strategy, which would have outsized impacts on vulnerable countries and populations.
What makes you think that an AGI program won’t have the same kind of offshoot-technology impact on the world? It’s not like it would go “nothing ... wait for it... AGI”; there’d be a lot of tools, processes, and paradigms developed along the way, and also lesser AIs developed that might solve real problems for e.g. government resource allocation or military strategy, which would have outsized impacts on vulnerable countries and populations.