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RE: Are We Cheating?
I think there are clues are pointing to the fact that quite a number of companies have already cracked artificial general super-intelligence but just not widely released yet. I would guess they're trying to develop products to release in tandem with the AI (wearables) and investing billions in additional compute so it can be scaled for widespread us.
In the short term, I think how it affects us, individually, will depend solely upon whether we choose to use it as a tool to enhance our own thinking abilities and skills or a crutch. As studies have shown, those who use it as a crutch will suffer in various ways, like cognitive decline. AI will invent so many different things that humans have been "stuck" on improving or didn't even know existed. We can't even predict how it will change the world—that's the exciting and the incredibly scary part of it all for me. I wouldn't be surprised if it discovers new branches of physics within the next couple of years that change our understanding of everything.
Yeah, that last part especially is what I was thinking about this morning. I think there is a creative aspect that the human mind has that is tied very closely to science and I am not sure a machine will be able to replicate that, but I am not really sure. There is definitely a lot to think about. I plan on using it the first way you mentioned when I really start getting into it, but I think it's a slippery slope.
It's a lot to digest. I'm beginning to think that AI will replicate and surpass our abilities in nearly every way. But in the short term its advantage will be to not think like we do, or maybe more so its abilities to think beyond our limitations. This is where the quantum leaps in material science and physics will be born. Being alive before AGI is released gives us the distinct advantage of wisdom to set our personal parameters now as to how we'll use it and how we won't. It's like time traveling to the years just before mobile phones and knowing how invasive they'll grow to be. It'll be MUCH more difficult for a person to do this after AGI is widely released and probably impossible for younger generations born after.
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