Is Artificial General Intelligence Impossible?

Cosmos+Taxis 12 (5+6):5-22 (2024)
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Abstract

In their Why Machines Will Never Rule the World, Landgrebe and Smith (2023) argue that it is impossible for artificial general intelligence (AGI) to succeed, on the grounds that it is impossible to perfectly model or emulate the “complex” “human neurocognitive system”. However, they do not show that it is logically impossible; they only show that it is practically impossible using current mathematical techniques. Nor do they prove that there could not be any other kinds of theories than those in current use. Even if perfect theories were impossible or unlikely, perfection may not be needed and may even be unhelpful.

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William J. Rapaport
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