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If intelligence is knowledge and the ability to apply it then maybe we should try to split AI into two systems: https://zzbbyy.substack.com/p/reasoning-machines

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Excellent observation. The single-threaded effort dominating AI today (i.e. the base assumption that OpenAI can scale GPT up as it is today into AGI) is what's causing the bottleneck.

Assuming AGI can be built as 1 system is assuming that mind is separate from body, which is the old dualist idea we've outgrown in our own awareness, but somehow not when it comes to AI. We've been growing AI in that direction at https://www.aolabs.ai/

> Assuming AGI can be built as 1 system is assuming that mind is separate from body

I don't quite follow this. If it's one system doesn't that mean the mind is not separate from the body?

Wouldn’t the internet and it’s OS layers and many miles of fibre and data center servers and all the hardware and software combined be a representative body for an AGI system. The body already exists, right now we just nurturing the mind

No, I don't see this as accurate. A body has a whole host of intelligence built into it, and can even learn (more akin to habituation). The underlying infra which you are suggesting could represent a body of sorts for AGI completely lacks this type of intelligence. And it's an open question how much general intelligence it itself functionally predicated on lower forms of intelligence such as that found in bodies.

I mean to emphasize that AGI is being built only in the shape of mind, as if mind is separate from body, which is clearly not the case in our human experience of general intelligence.

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