This post summarizes a vision and project plan for a future where every human/person can thrive As Long As Possible… where every person is free to determine what they think, feel, and do as long as they don’t harm another person.

The time to create beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (BGI) at the human level (and soon after, far beyond) is here.

There is still more R&D needed to get to HLAGI (Human-Level AGI), but we have a clear idea what technical problems need to be solved and a variety of solid-looking routes that look promising to solve them.

It seems very likely that, once HLAGI is reached, Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) will probably not be far behind.   An AGI with the technical competence of human scientists and engineers will be able to study itself and improve itself, and scale itself up, triggering a very rapidly advancing “intelligence explosion” which Vinge, Kurzweil and others have referred to as a Singularity.

BGI has potential to be by far the best thing that’s ever happened to humanity – and to life on Earth in general.   It is amazing to be alive at the time of such a fascinating and tremendous transition.

Source: Medium Article