Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
by p1esk on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:53PM
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If you know how to get there why don’t you build it?
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1) Indeed we are doing a few of the things on the checklist to build AGI.
2) Our focus is on helping improve medical and clinical science and cancer tooling first.
3) If we needed AGI to cure cancer, perhaps we'd be working directly on AGI. If anyone thinks this is the case, please let me know, as at the moment I don't think it is.
You don’t think AGI would dramatically speed up cancer research (or any other research)?
Of course I do, but my back of the envelope guess is there's a 30% shot we can cure cancer in 15 years without AGI, and a 1% shot we can reach AGI in 15 years. I think AGI is cool but I'm much more concerned about helping people with cancer.