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Re:OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales b... by cedws on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @07:23PM (#41990475)
How do you even define ASI? How do you know it will run on silicon? If it will run on silicon, what kind of silicon? GPU? TPU? Binary? Ternary? Von-Neumann architecture? How can you even start to build chips for something completely imaginary?
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Re:OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales b... by atleastoptimal on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @09:45PM (#41991177)
ASI is just AGI but scaled to the point of superhuman ability in all cognitive tasks. Surely it will run on the architectures used to build AGI before ASI takes control itself in the design and deployment.
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Re:OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales b... by Terr_ on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @10:31PM (#41991411)
> ASI is just AGI but scaled [...] Surely it will run on the architectures used to build AGI

The words "just" and "surely" are doing so much heavy lifting here that I'm worried about labor-laws. :p

If scaling up was "just" that easy and the next step would "surely" begin in the exact same architecture... Well, you've gotta ask why several billion general-intelligence units made from the finest possible nanotechnology haven't already merged into a super-intelligence. Or whether it happened, and we just didn't notice.

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