Re:Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
by janalsncm on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @09:32PM
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> Closest thing we have to a Manhattan Project in the modern era?
No. The Manhattan Project started after we understood the basic mechanism of runaway fission reactions. The funding was mostly spent purifying uranium.
AGI would be similar if we understood the mechanism of creating general intelligence and just needed to scale it up. But there are still fundamental questions we still aren’t close to understanding for AGI.
A more apt comparison today is probably something like fusion reactors although progress has been slow there too. We know how fusion works in theory. We have done it before (thermonuclear weapons). There are sub-problems we need to solve, but people are working on them. For AGI we don’t even know what the sub-problems are yet.
No. The Manhattan Project started after we understood the basic mechanism of runaway fission reactions. The funding was mostly spent purifying uranium.
AGI would be similar if we understood the mechanism of creating general intelligence and just needed to scale it up. But there are still fundamental questions we still aren’t close to understanding for AGI.
A more apt comparison today is probably something like fusion reactors although progress has been slow there too. We know how fusion works in theory. We have done it before (thermonuclear weapons). There are sub-problems we need to solve, but people are working on them. For AGI we don’t even know what the sub-problems are yet.