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I’m constantly amused by the idea that we will invent AGI and AI will solve all of our problems. We don’t need AGI to solve our problems, even ChatGPT can already tell us obvious solutions to our current problems.

We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change. The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.

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in reply to Dare Obasanjo

I attended an online seminar about philanthropic uses of AI (through work) and the host was talking about a mother in a poor village with no doctor using AI to look up treatments for her young child suffering from dysentery. Being the kind of person I am, I said “it sounds like that village needs clean water a lot more than AI,” which threw off the host and which a bunch of other attendees nodded along with.

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