Questions about AGI's Importance

Elliot Temple

Why expect AGIs to be better at thinking than human beings? Is there some argument that human thinking problems are primarily due to hardware constraints? Has anyone here put much thought into parenting/educating AGIs?

I suspect this has been answered on here before in a lot more detail, but:

Evolution isn't necessarily trying to make us smart; it's just trying to make us survive and reproduce
Evolution tends to find local optima (see: obviously stupid designs like how the optical nerve works)
We seem to be pretty good at making things that are better than what evolution comes up with (see: no birds on the moon, no predators with natural machine guns, etc.)

Also, specifically in AI, there is some precedent for there to be only a few years between "researchers get AI to do something at all" and "this AI is better at its task than any human who has ever lived". Chess did it a while. It just happened with Go. I suspect we're crossing that point with image recognition now.

Do you expect AGI to be qualitatively or quantitatively better at thinking than humans?

Do you think there are different types of intelligence? If so, what types? And would AGI be the same type as humans?

EDIT: By "intelligence" I mean general intelligence.

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