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‘Baby AGI’ could be a reality in early 2025: SingularityNET founder

... “We’re building decentralized AI infrastructures that are agnostic with respect to what AI approach you may want to take,” he said, noting the aim was that a “12-year-old genius from Tajikistan” could contribute to a breakthrough. ...

Scheduled for release in Alpha in April, Hyperon is described in a research paperwith numerous coauthors as “a framework for AGI at the human level and beyond” that incorporates the latest ideas, software and techniques. OpenCog is an open-source AI project founded by Goertzel in 2008 and is affiliated with SingularityNET. ...

Goertzel also threw his support behind Vitalik Buterin’s defensive acceleration (d/acc) approach to developing superintelligent AI.

Opinion on AGI development is currently split between accelerationists (e/acc) who want to rush toward the technology due to its benefits, and decelerationists (decel), who want to slow down development for fear of the existential risks. ...

Goertzel has just written a new book about AGI called The Consciousness Explosionthat argues AGI will have enormous benefits and will liberate humans from repetitive labor, end all physical and mental diseases, cure aging and potentially prevent involuntary death. 

While he says these benefits outweigh the risks, AGI could still go wrong in a number of ways. 

He outlined some of those risks in his address, including China and the United States developing “super AGI whose goal is to clobber the other guy” or an unethical rollout of AGI that only benefits the global elite and makes the poor even poorer. ...

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