AI
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No matter what goal you have in life, there are a few things you need to get right if you want to achieve those goals. Your main goal is known as a terminal goal, and the subgoals are called instrumental goals. These instrumental goals are not taught—they emerge naturally because they are often the most efficient way
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Intelligence is the ability to accomplish complex goals. These goals could be anything—from growing toward sunlight to coding websites. These goals may emerge through evolution, be programmed, or arise spontaneously. What matters is that the entity behaves in a way that moves toward achieving them. The three fundamental building blocks of intelligence are computation, memory,
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A more intelligent entity tends to control a less intelligent one—not because it has evil intentions, but because it often has complex goals. If a less intelligent entity becomes an obstacle, it gets rid of it. For example, if you want to build a highway through a jungle and there happens to be a gorilla
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Power naturally follows intelligence. Gorillas are physically stronger than us, but we dominate them. We control their habitat, their breeding—even their fate—because we are much smarter than they are. We can cooperate on a large scale and build tools that allow us to control them. Even though power naturally follows intelligence, in humans it is
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I was blushing and felt understood when I read this. This emotional reaction prompted me to question the true nature of interactions between humans and AI. Brainstorming with ChatGPT is a normal routine for me. Whenever I want to understand difficult concepts or explore a broad range of topics, I fire up a chat with
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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is one of humanity’s most ambitious frontiers — the quest to build machines that can think, learn, and adapt like humans. AGI is mimicking human intelligence. An AGI must be able to learn everything a human can and apply knowledge from one domain to another. For example, if an AGI learns
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People have been creating art for a long time. Whether it was a caveman drawing on the walls of a cave to say, “I was here,” or kings having artists create their portraits, art has evolved over time, taking different forms and styles. Technology democratized art—what that means is it made art accessible to more
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When I decided to go deep into AI, I started by reading science fiction stories about AI and broad general books on the subject. My primary goal was to develop genuine curiosity, so that studying AI wouldn’t feel like work but more like play. Once I became deeply curious, I wanted to understand its history—what
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We discover new knowledge by thinking from first principles—building knowledge from the ground up. Current AI models have access to past data, but they also need real-time access to the world, to see and perceive it the way we do. They must make falsifiable assumptions about the world and then test those assumptions against reality
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