Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?

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WhitneyLand · 2023-01 · Recommendation

>We have that now. It's called a corporation. I think there’s a good argument to say no, we don’t have that now, and these are some ways it could be very different. Video: Why not just think of AGI as a corporation? [VIDEO]

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HaukeHi · 2022-03 · Recommendation

There's a good video by Robert Miles about that 'Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?' [VIDEO] are kind of like AIs, if you squint. How hard do you have to squint though, and is it worth it? In this video we ask: Are corporations artificial general superintelligences?

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jengleton · 2020-07 · Recommendation

Robert Miles has an interesting response to the claim that corporations are AIs: [VIDEO] To paraphrase: yes, corporations function as agents, but their maximum performance is limited by the capabilities of their employees. A corporate AI may have a much broader set of skills than any single person, and may be able to tackle many concurrent tasks, but as an "intelligent agent" its decision making capabilities probably don't scale exponentially (or even linearly) with its headcount. In the sense that a corporation's maximum intelligence is likely to be in the same ballpark as the smartest humans, it can't be seen as a true superintelligence.

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