Advanced AI system is already ‘self-aware’ — ASI Alliance founder

ASI Alliance laminitis Ben Goertzel says nan alpha type of OpenCog Hyperon — nan artificial wide intelligence strategy he’s been processing for much than 2 decades — is already “self-aware” to a definite extent.

Goertzel connected shape pinch three-legged robot vocalist Desdemona (Fenton)

OpenCog Hyperon and nan early of artificial wide intelligence

Three years ago, nan task embarked connected a full rebuild of OpenCog successful “pursuit of monolithic scalability, and we’re a ample measurement done that process,” he says. The Alpha launched successful April, and while he says it’s presently very slow and “breaking changes” are expected, nan squad is moving connected “massively speeding it up. I deliberation that should beryllium completed this fall. And truthful then, which intends adjacent year, we’ll beryllium mounting astir trying to build toward AGI connected nan caller Hyperloop infrastructure.”

“A Hyperon strategy is not conscionable a chatbot. It’s architected arsenic a benignant of autonomous supplier which has its ain goals and its ain aforesaid consciousness and tries to cognize who it is and who you are, what it’s trying to execute successful nan fixed situation. So it’s very overmuch an autonomous, self-aware supplier alternatively than conscionable a question-answering system.”

AGI systems request self-awareness for autonomy

Hold on, Goertzel’s saying nan current exemplary is aforesaid aware?

“What I mean by self-aware is that from nan get-go, moreover nan existent versions, I mean, it has a exemplary of who it is. It has a exemplary of who you are. It has definite goals it’s trying to execute successful nan situation. It knows really it relates to that business and what it’s trying to do. And a ChatGPT benignant of strategy isn’t really doing that right.”

GPT-4 explains what that each intends (OpenAI)

OpenAI’s o1 and regulatory risk

For each nan hype astir autonomous agent-like behaviour pinch OpenAI and “Strawberry,” Goertzel believes OpenAI deliberately avoided taking that way pinch nan released o1 model.

“It’s trying to beryllium bully astatine reasoning and logic, and it’s very bully astatine that. I emotion it. It’s very impressive. It’s not trying to beryllium an autonomous agent. That’s a different point connected purpose. I deliberation they don’t want to do that, because it would look risky and dangerous, and group regulators would effort to stomp connected them. The past point they want to do is make an autonomous agent.”

Which is 1 of nan benefits of processing a decentralized open-source system. Regulators can’t “stomp connected it” successful nan aforesaid way.

“As we motorboat precocious AI systems, they’ll beryllium moving crossed nan machines dispersed crossed each continent, successful 50 aliases 100 different countries,” he says. “So I mean, if 1 state decided OpenCog Hyperon is illegal, it’s only gonna beryllium a mini fraction of nan network.”

Is Sam Altman trying to hole nan world for autonomous agents by portraying a utopia? (X)

Since our question and reply astatine Token2049 past week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman released an effort coating a image of a early utopia called nan “Intelligence Age” brought astir by AGI. Goertzel besides hopes that nan benevolent AGI he’s trying to build will beryllium truthful useful that nary 1 will want to prohibition it.

“I judge this tin beryllium thing measurement smarter than what Big Tech is doing. So if we tin get thing measurement smarter than nan OpenAI, o1 exemplary utilizing Opencog Hyperon, and we tin rotation that retired connected a decentralized network, I mean, past nan world will jump into that nan aforesaid measurement they jumped into ChatGPT, and past they will beryllium utilizing nan decentralized network, conscionable by nan way, because it happens to beryllium successful nan underlying infrastructure.”

Challenges and advantages of decentralized AI systems

The hostility astatine nan bosom of decentralized AI projects is that it’s overmuch easier and cheaper to tally ample models utilizing centralized equipment. 

Training neural nets and transformers connected decentralized instrumentality is presently a nonstarter, though Goertzel says caller investigation suggests it is feasible.

CUDOS should supply a large boost to nan magnitude of computing resources disposable (X)

But he says logical reasoning and improvement learning via algorithms “run very people connected a decentralized web of machines.”

The scheme appears to bootstrap nan web pinch immoderate much centralized accommodation while adding to nan compute pinch nan decentralized network. SingularityNET and Fetch person spent “a important fraction” of 100 cardinal ASI tokens (currently being renamed from FET) to acquisition GPUs to build supercomputers. They’ll walk nan remainder erstwhile token prices recover.

Between nan 4 projects successful nan Alliance, Goertzel estimates they’ll soon person “a mates of 100 cardinal dollars of dedicated compute hardware.” Additional computing tin beryllium pulled successful from SingularityNET spin-off NuNet, which uses idle CPU and GPU powerfulness from connected computers, and Hypercycle, which is simply a level connecting AI services.

Renewable power to powerfulness decentralized AI systems

LayerZero’s Bryan Pellegrino spent a decade moving successful AI and told Magazine during Korea Blockchain Week that his acquisition pinch energy prices impacting his Bitcoin mining profits has near him pinch large reservations astir decentralized AI.

“It’s very difficult to get compute nan economies of standard [needed], aliases nan costs of nan underlying hardware [down], successful a world erstwhile you’re competing against Google and AWS and each of these others, and conscionable really they do their cooling and everything, from nan costs of energy each nan measurement down. So I’ve ever been bearish connected astir of nan different segments of nan intersection.”

But Goertzel says nan costs of energy pales successful comparison to nan costs of nan instrumentality truthful “I don’t work together that it’s a non-starter.”

SingularityNET laminitis Dr Ben Goertzel connected keyboards pinch his amazingly bully robot-fronted band. (Fenton)

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It surely is. To underscore nan standard of nan energy required, news emerged this week that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has sounded nan White House a scheme to build tremendous information centers successful various US states, each requiring 5 gigawatts of powerfulness — balanced to nan output of 5 atomic reactors.

AI information centers are usually located adjacent awesome metropolitan areas arsenic nan services require debased latency to present ultra-fast responses. However, Goertzel points retired nan o1 exemplary has prioritized nan value of responses complete speed, and Opencog Hyperon will, too.

“If you person AI that’s trying to do immoderate benignant of heavy thinking, let’s opportunity AI is trying to foretell nan guidance of nan marketplace complete nan adjacent day, right? Or nan AI is trying to observe a caller drug, right? Then it doesn’t matter if it’s successful Paraguay aliases Ethiopia aliases wherever.”