The AGI race fueled by the TESCREAList goal to build “transhuman minds” (Goertzel, 2010) and bring about “unlimited intelligence” has also resulted in systems that consume more and more resources in terms of data and compute power. This lea…99. “Moore’s Law for Everything” (16 March 2021), at https://moores.samaltman.com/, accessed 31 January 2024. Incidentally, the idea that the Singularity is “unstoppable” or “inevitable” is strongly emphasized in Kurzweil’s work, as when he…
Nando de Freitas
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Nando de Freitas appears primarily as a researcher associated with deep learning and AI systems development, though he surfaces only briefly in these excerpts as context for discussions of the AGI race and resource consumption. The readings invoke him implicitly within debates about whether exponential computational scaling—framed through concepts like "Moore's Law for Everything"—can sustainably drive the transhuman intelligence goals that structure contemporary AI development. His work seems to matter here as part of the landscape of systems whose resource demands complicate utopian narratives about unlimited intelligence.
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