Jamie Metzl

They would have thought that's magic.

Oh, that's like his Saturday Night Live.

It is.

So I have summarized a big part of my view on AGI, artificial general intelligence.

And by AGI, what most people mean is a point when our machines will be able to do most cognitive or all cognitive tasks automatically.

Better than the average human.

And I summarize my response in seven letters.

I-S-B-S.

A-G-I is bullshit.

And what I mean by that is we don't even know what we know.

We don't know how we know it.

Ed Yong had a wonderful book called An Immense World where he describes all of these different animals, all of whom are relatives of ours.

And they have just different ways of sensing the world and some smell through their hands.

And we have all of those things.

You and I are together as people.

There's so much more that's happening right now than the transcript of the words or predicting what word is going to come after.

That's what human knowledge is.

And so this idea that we're going to be able to replicate that or have machines do everything that humans can do is such an insult to the majesty of what a human is.

We represent almost four billion years of...

of embodied evolution.