AI and Existential Risk (Robert Wright & Connor Leahy)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The Evolution of Human Intelligence
I think it seems to be unlikely that you could take a chimp brain and just do increases of degree in some sense and get human intelligence. There are no new parts of the brain in the human brain. We have a much larger neocortex. I don't think this is prewired. Most of the brains are prewired by the genome, while other parts are kind of like neural network parameters, they're learned after birth. And the human part, learning part in humans is very, very, very large compared to any other animal. Yeah. AGI would have it. Maybe a practical way to define AGI is the level at which your concerns start to be real. Right?
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