Clarion-Ledger: “OpenAI reportedly has an internal road map to get to this point, and beyond, in five levels. The first is Chatbots, what we have today; the second is Reasoners, which is AI with human level problem solving; third is Agents, which are systems able to act autonomously in line with prescribed goals (these will debut in various parts of our lives this year); the fourth is Innovators, when AI can produce original analysis and insights; and the fifth is Organizations, when AI can do the work of an entire organization.
If your job involves receiving, sorting, tracking and sharing information — which is most office jobs — AI will likely soon be able to do it better and cheaper.
Imagine being able to instantly recall every experience or fact you’ve ever encountered — that’s the baseline for computer intelligence. Add the ability to stay fully energized and at peak performance by directly plugging into a power source.
Now picture having PhD-level knowledge in every subject, updated daily with the latest research. This gives a glimpse of how fundamentally different AI will be from anything we’ve known.
With AGI, new “employees” will not be hired and trained as needed: they will be trained and then copied and pasted with the only limit being server space and electricity.
At first this will be the opposite of the great technological dispossession America recently experienced, that of the cargo container facilitating the gutting of American manufacturing. White collar workers will go first, but in time so will physical laborers in factories and warehouses and then at construction sites and service industries like restaurants.
The technology is further along than most realize.”