Day 1

It was nearly midnight when I suddenly woke up sweating and panting. The night was young but I could not stop thinking about a world where ...

You know the drill, I'll stop writing another cliche opening. But it was something similar. I never thought something like this would actually happen to me and related to something which others consider to be a fantasy. So how does all of this relate to AGI. Let me explain.

Why

But before we get started, why am I writing this series

A. Writing is thinking, and I want to do more of it

B. A slightly informal let out for me to express my thoughts on this potential roller-coaster ride that humanity is poised to embark on.

C. A form of therapy

What

I would like to treat this as a public journal to keep myself accountable to the predictions that I make and share my thoughts about a phenomena. Writing in public gives you a feeling of depth and seriousness to the content, as your brain feels the heaviness of the fact that this might be read by a lot of people (and AIs). Also it helps you actually get your thoughts out in the open.

Given the above needs, I will not be going into a lot of technicalities as I am trying to share more emotional aspects through these notes

lets get back

So why did I have to wake up in the middle of the night and start freaking about AGI. Countless others have split a lot of key strokes and ink on it so I dont want to go into the details of it over here. I have created a separate site to delve  collect more indepth views on that topic - https://agi.bhishmaraj.org . 

Most people think that AGI is like any other technology which will just help humans. But I disagree, I see it as an entirely new form of being which has the potential to dwarf us. I would like to clarify that I am talking about AGI in general and not the current LLMs. 

Over the next few posts I will try to explain my reasoning.