Strong AI Advantages

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Right now the wide majority of AIs are application specific. Chess AIs only play chess, speech recognition AIs only translate audio files to text and self-driving cars only know how to drive. For decades the possibility of a more generalized “strong” AI has fascinated researchers and Science Fiction writers alike. The creation of a generalized artificial intelligence with all the capabilities of the human mind would fundamentally change our economy and our society as a whole. People with white and blue collar jobs alike could easily be replaced with computers and robots. A strong AI would no trouble taking the jobs of civil engineers and designing bridges or taking the jobs of patent attorneys and writing litigation. The creation of a strong, generalized AI has the potential to turn our society into a utopia where nobody is poor or a dystopia where 1% of the population controls all of the mechanized labor and wealth. Either way, the invention of a strong AI would fundamentally change and influence the future. The first and most glaring reason why a strong AI has not already been created is the technical difficulty of creating one. Let’s consider the example of a strong AI that is attempting to modify itself using a brute force algorithm. If there are 4096 possible legal lines of assembly code in its instruction set and the modification requires writing 1000 lines of code, …show more content…

Corporations such as Google typically invest most of their money and manpower into application specific AIs such as Google translate or self-driving cars. As a result most generalized AI research is carried out by nonprofit organizations and universities. It seems as though corporations spend most of their energy researching application specific AIs because they are risk adverse and choose to invest in projects that are more likely to produce results, even if their final product is less than earth

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