Max Tegmark

can think of it as being a computer already, right?

It's constantly computing what water waves, how to evolve the water waves and the River Charles and how to move the air molecules around.

Seth Lloyd has pointed out, my colleague here,

You can even, in a very rigorous way, think of our entire universe as being a quantum computer.

It's pretty clear that our universe supports this amazing processing power because you can even, within this physics computer that we live in, we can even build actual laptops and stuff.

So clearly the power is there.

It's just that most of the compute power that nature has

it's in my opinion kind of wasting on boring stuff like simulating yet another ocean wave somewhere where no one is even looking right so in a sense what life does what we are doing when we build computers is we're re-channeling all this compute that nature is doing anyway right into doing things that are more interesting than just yet another ocean wave you know and let's do something cool here so the raw hardware power is there and for sure but and and

And even just computing what's going to happen for the next five seconds in this water bottle, it takes a ridiculous amount of compute if you do it on a human computer.

This water bottle just did it.

But that does not mean that this water bottle has AGI.

Because AGI means it should also be able to have written my book, done this interview.

Yes.

And I don't think it's just communication problems.

I don't think it is.

It can do it.

Communication is also very important though because, I mean, look, part of my job is being a teacher and I know some very intelligent professors even who are just

have a better hard time communicating.

They come up with all these brilliant ideas, but to communicate with somebody else, you have to also be able to simulate their own mind.

Build well enough and understand model of their mind that you can say things that they will understand.