Hi All, This is a work in progress but am at a point where feedback would be helpful and I can't think of a more appropriate audience. The overarching purpose of the following project and taxonomy is to both propose standardized ordinal levels of AGI and accurately frame, track and predict the state of specific Human-Equivalent (HE) AGI components, particularly for Human-Level Sentient (Conscious) AGI. While this is admittedly speculative and hypothetical to varying degrees, it is a starting point that might allow for more accurate expert-sourced extrapolation of timelines to specific types of HE AGI. Clearly much debate exists within the cognitive sciences as to what exactly constitutes intelligence and moreover, consciousness and it is not my intent to make judgements on existing theories or the risks, dangers and alignment challenges, however, it is clear to me HE AGI comes with clear ethical responsibilities and we should be just as concerned for the rights and ethical treatment of Self-aware HE AGI agents as we are for that of humans. In fact, this reciprocity of respect may have more pronounced long-term consequences than we can imagine.
While many developmental paths to HE AGI exist (eg. Brain Emulation, Seed, etc) It is my humble opinion that our most likely initial path will follow brain-inspired cognitive architectures that will certainly include the 5 key categories listed (Perception, Understanding, Cognition/Reasoning, Consciousness and Actuation). Ethical considerations aside, this is likely our best option to allow for alignment somewhat analogous to moral consideration between sophisticated human. Each of these distinct systems will of course converge to produce consciousness and each will incorporate multiple DNN/LSTM/MORL/etc. subsystems. Sidenote: current GPT LLM systems for the most part 'deepfake' reasoning with statistical inference but I estimate a shift towards continuous learning systems much closer in architecture to our own neo-cortex within 5 to 10 years.
Feedback and constructive criticism is welcomed on the discord I setup for this project here: https://discord.gg/zj3HNQUXsf