Ben Orchard
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AGI Perception
Since its launch (about 2.5 years ago), ChatGPT has not just become the fastest-growing consumer software application in history, but it’s also prompted a deluge of other AI (artificial intelligence) companies and task-specific chatbots. It seems that the ‘next big thing’ is the development of AGI, artificial general intelligence, or super intelligence. The idea is to combine the best of all the world’s AI into one super smart application. Many of the top programmers and scientists are discussing the possibility that this AGI may be on the threshold of having consciousness or even sentience. That is, being aware of what it is feeling or sensing. Some of the AIs in use today can already see and hear; they can report back to human users just what they are seeing, but can they really see? Can they perceive the implications of what they are seeing? What is the difference between an all-seeing, all-hearing super-intelligent computer and a human? Let’s take a look at how God created Adam and gave him eyes to see and ears to hear.
