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Madonna, Sybil and Superintelligence

Do you wish some relationships came with a delete button? While you can choose to crawl under a rock, you are already married to AI. With the dawn of Generalized Artificial Intelligence, your new spouse will…

Do you wish some relationships came with a delete button? While you can choose to crawl under a rock, you are already married to AI. With the dawn of Generalized Artificial Intelligence, your new spouse will only get smarter and more manipulative unless you exert your own intelligence and balance things out.

As Madona once sang, “only boys with proper credit make my rainy day.” If my goal in life were to marry her avatar (pre-plastic surgery) then I would curate my feeds, parse my data, and cover up as much of my digital footprint as possible. In short, I would clean up my online act. But Madonna is just one girl and AI is Sybil.

The Co-opetititive partner.

While open marriage is controversial, with AGI it is the only thing that makes sense. In fact, you may need to dance with multiple partners just to stay on your feet.

OpenAI, for example, bases everything on scaling. Under this approach the road to AGI is linear if they just stretch the learning out far enough. That means moving like Jane Fonda in spandex to deepen your backstory across as many mediums as possible.

The Google/DeepMind model is more of a mashup. It has been called “a combination of hierarchical reasoning, self-improving Gödel machines, multi-agent systems, embodied intelligence, and scientific discovery.” [1] In other words, a synthesis instead of a straight line that rewards frequent costume (i.e., content) changes to keep things real.

Meta believes that language models (LLMs) without physical models (i.e., video) are “like philosophers in Plato's cave, seeing only shadows” [2] This makes you a dancer on a movie set who may or may not be good enough for your own trailer.

Finally, Grok relies on real-time information based on multi-agent architectures that revolve around buzz, gossip and events. Here you become a Ron Burgundy who is light on his feet. Yes, Burgundy, considering how silly X can get.

Because all these approaches (and more) are converging fast, a betting person might bank on “co-opetition” between the players. That means a feed from x combined with a video from Meta merged with a search from Google elongated like a medieval torture device by OpenAI that you honor and obey.

Or not.

Love is Real

No one can predict what AGI will value in a partner. But hallucinations prove that it will be constitutionally incapable of getting anything wrong about you. Which means you might be more attractive by just being yourself. For example, while your mom might say “I can’t believe you could be so stupid” AGI might be intrigued by the why.

Which could create symmetry between you and your betrothed.

Yeah. How crazy is that?

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References:

[1] H. Peter Alesso, On the Cusp of SuperIntelligence , 45.

[2} Ibid. , 52.

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