The Sixty Trillion Dollar "Man"
The Sixty Trillion Dollar "Man" AGI isn't just a pipe dream. It's a bureaucratic nightmare. MARK BISONE Artificial General Intelligence is weird and dumb. It’s weird that some people want it, and dumb that they think they can get it (or ever prove to skeptics that it’s doing what they claim it is). But just because something is both stupidly impossible and impossibly stupid doesn’t mean a government won’t try it. In fact, these are key selling points for such boondoggles and money pits. Case in point: Gary Marcus recently published a piece on his stack clamoring for governmental AGI regulation. The Road to AI We Can Trust How China might crush the West in the race to AGI if we don’t up our regulatory game The conventional wisdom these days seems to be that AI regulation will stifle innovation, and that it should be avoided at all costs. What if that conventional wisdom were wrong? What if instead the world were facing one of the great multi-layered ironies in hist