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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
seachaint@masto.hackers.town ("Seachaint") wrote:

I've said before: even if we *could* make #AGI out of the disaster that is LLM-Chatbots, and even if we could *guarantee* that it was beneficent, it would still destroy us simply as a function of its power and water requirements.

We already have an incredible General Intelligence with untapped potential: humanity, and the social structures that let humanity work together to study and solve problems.

AGI is variously a distraction or a slavery-fantasy. There is no merit to it in current form.