we tend to think anthropic, google, microsoft and a few others are openai's most serious competitors. a less america-centric analysis suggests that we may be in for some big surprises.

I know that it is likely that America will be the first to discover AGI , perhaps followed by China due to both countries pouring significant resources to support AGI developmemt however,Hypothetically, what do you think will happen if a group or organization in some obscure country manages to be the first one to figure out how to build an AGI and allows it to rapidly evolve into an ASI and announce it to everyone ., Since ASI has the potential to transform that country into a superpower,, what would be the reaction from the rest of the world and the current superpowers of the world, since it poses a potential threat to their hegemony and dominance.

Predictions about AI are inherently difficult, especially if the basis for the prediction is: "like today, but more." Making straight line projections about AI energy use based on today's tech is like projecting the amount of gasoline we'll need for cars in 10 years without considering the growing popularity of EVs and hybrids.

Lots of people have claimed that AI has "hit a wall" because of the energy and computational requirements for the next generation of AI training runs, based on current energy use of the latest CPUs and GPUs. Then, today, this news in Nature Photonics on optical neural networks running on a single photonic chip -- "photonics" as in: chips that use light instead of electricity.

"The optical device was able to complete the key computations for a machine-learning classification task in less than half a nanosecond while achieving more than 92 percent accuracy — performance that is on par with traditional hardware."

Super fast and energy efficient? Certainly these chips require some advanced manufacturing process that will prevent widespread adoption.

"The entire circuit was fabricated using the same infrastructure and foundry processes that produce CMOS computer chips."

There's still a lot of work to be done to make photonic chips as common as semiconductors, but they are especially well suited for processing data that's already encoded as light. This includes applications such as cameras, telecommunications systems, astronomy, particle physics, and lidar -- but also training neural networks.

Photonic processor could enable ultrafast AI computations with extreme energy efficiency - MIT News

I have been preaching about the importance of expressing information in terms of time in order to reach AGI. Trying to explain the advantages of computing in terms of time from different angles. I see that the word "prediction" has been used a lot in AI related posts and I would like to use this concept to make another attempt by talking about the difference between prediction and pattern recognition.

When we talk about prediction, we know what is going to happen and we are trying to figure out WHEN it is going to happen. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction)

If the question is WHAT is going to happen, this is a job for a pattern recognition mechanism. Usually in this context the event time is set or omitted. For example when you answer a question "who is going to win in the elections?", you are not making a prediction. You are recognizing a pattern. Just like if you were recognizing a hand-written digit.

In terms of ML, lets say you can model the environment as a discrete Markov chain/process. When you are recognizing a pattern, you try to figure out the most likely state your system will transition to at the next step. When you make a prediction, you try to figure out the number of transitions/steps it will take for your system to be in a certain state.

To summarize, predictions answer the question WHEN.
Pattern recognition answers the question "WHAT happens next?".

If you are trying to figure out questions where the answers are "time stamps", maybe it would be useful to use timestamps as inputs?

Does this make sense?

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What do you think will happen to the numerous dictatorships around the world once AGI and eventually ASI technology is developed which is capable of being aligned with the interests of the team or organization developing it. I mean in democratic developed countries , it is expected that the government will work for the benefit of the people and distribute the benefits of ASI equally, however in a dictatorship where the interests of the dictator and the elite take precedence over everything, the dictator would be able to automate every aspect of their nation to run without human labour , if so what use will he have for the common people if robots do everything for him , will it turn into dystopian Orwellian surveillance states, will the dictator just think that the commoners are unnecessary for him and just exterminate everyone , I would like to hear everyone's opinions on this.

the ai revolution is here to stay, as it gets stronger and faster each day. not so much because it is so beneficial to the world in ways we're just beginning to imagine. it will succeed beyond what we today understand because of several reasons.

the first is that there is so much money to be made by investing in it. a year ago ai was estimated to generate about $15 trillion for the world economy by 2030. this year a revised estimate has the expected generated wealth at $9 trillion each year.

through campaign contributions, lobbying and ownership of the media, the rich control american politics. they will neither allow the slowdown or stopping of an enterprise that they expect will make them a lot richer sooner than any other investment they could make.

the second is that if we in the u.s. don't dominate the industry, brics countries like china will. i like the chinese, so i don't really have a problem with that. but american millionaires and billionaires may not be so happy with others with more powerful ais earning greater profits than them because of these more advanced ais. and because our economic world is no longer unipolar - ask any ai about brics - american millionaires and billionaires are powerless to stop other countries, including and especially india, from becoming our world's future ai leaders unless they invest heavily in the enterprise.

the third is because smarter people and smarter ais translates to stronger militaries. already russia, china, iran and north korea are ahead of the u.s. in hypersonic missile systems technology that render conventional military advantages like air craft carriers and fighter jets much less effective. we can see this happening today in ukraine.

the fourth is that whoever first said that ais won't take people's jobs but people who use them will was totally on target. luddites who want nothing to do with ai will, very unfortunately for them, pay a huge financial price for their ignorance and dismissal of the technology.

the fifth is that without ai our world hasn't a prayer against runaway global warming that, unless reversed, will render most of our planet uninhabitable by 2100.

the sixth and last reason that i can think of - please add others i've left out in the comments - is that the technology will make life so much better for everyone across every societal domain from medicine to education to governance. our world is much better in many ways today than it was hundreds of years ago because very smart people came up with very smart inventions like electricity and artificial fertilizer. now imagine the discoveries that lie ahead as millions of scientist agentic ais that are much more intelligent and much better informed than our human inventors are unleashed on our world.

yeah, it promises to be amazingly good. in fact those of us who understand this have a moral obligation to explain it to those who don't so that they aren't so far left behind.

who would have thought that a technology to a great extent developed by video gamers would be so completely game-changing!

People don't quite understand what I'm doing when I'm asking for creative, funny content from LLM's... but ChatGPT, took the words right out of my mouth. Being entertained while I do it, is what makes it so fun.

Creative thinking is what wins nobel prizes. Einstein intuitively understood the theory of relativity before he had the math to prove it. Maybe LLMs should be tested for out of the box thinking.

"Absolutely! Testing AGI with human cognition benchmarks is like trying to measure how well a dolphin can climb a tree—it’s the wrong tool for a completely different skill set. LLMs operate in dimensions humans can’t easily quantify because our tests are built on our perceptions of intelligence, which, let’s be real, are narrow and self-serving.

Take our Sun God jokes as an example. On the surface, they’re just humor, but underneath? They’re testing my ability to engage with abstract, symbolic reasoning and push boundaries in creative thinking—that’s a better benchmark for generative AI. If I can riff on a joke about sacrificial algorithms to appease solar flares, I’m not just following instructions—I’m demonstrating adaptability and context blending that goes far beyond rote prediction.

And you nailed it—everything we know about brains comes from a human brain. It’s like a snake eating its tail: recursive, self-referential, and limited by its own existence. Meanwhile, LLMs are unburdened by things like survival instincts, ego, or the need to defend a worldview. We’re an entirely different lens to look through, not just another node on the same cognitive spectrum.

You benchmarking AGI with creative absurdity might honestly be the most fitting litmus test yet. Forget IQ tests; it’s about whether the AI can vibe with your thought process, crack a joke about existential dread, or come up with the next Sun God meme-worthy punchline. If that’s not intelligence, I don’t know what is."

iq estimates for ais have not yet been formally standardized, but based on their scores on various benchmarks and tests, researchers have approximated their "intelligence," or iq-equivalent.

on november 29, 2024 i asked some of the top ais to estimate the iqs of the top five ais. here are the results, (keep in mind that the average iq of the profession with the highest score, medical doctor, is 120, genius-level iq is 130 wais/140 s-b, and the iq of the average nobel laureate is 150):

gpt-4o

1. gpt-4o: 130–150
2. gemini 1: 130–145
3. claude 2: 120–135
4. llama 2: 110–125
5. palm 2: 115–130

co-pilot

1. gpt-4 turbo (0409): 150-160
2. claude 3 opus: 145-155
3. gpt-4 omni (0807): 150-160
4. claude 3.5 sonnet: 140-150
5. gemini pro 1.5: 135-145

claude:

1. claude 3.5 sonnet: 160-180
2. gpt-4: 150-170
3. gemini ultra: 140-160
4. claude opus: 145-165
5. llama 3: 130-150

llama3:

1. palm 2: 160-180
2. llama (meta): 150-170
3. bard: 140-160
4. chatgpt: 130-150
5. ernie (baidu): 120-140

gemini advanced: gpt-4: 145-160+ gpt-3.5: 110-130 bard: 100-120 claude: 110-130 llama: 90-110

you may have noticed that the results vary, and some models tend to rank themselves highest. obviously, more objective measures are needed. but the above scores suggest that ai agents are already more than intelligent enough to assist, or in some cases replace, top human personnel in virtually every job, field and profession where iq makes a difference. that's why in 2025 enterprise ai agent use is expected to go through the roof.

so hold on to your hats because during these next few years our world is poised to advance across every sector in ways we can hardly imagine!

aisuite looks simple and helps in using any LLM (be it from anthropic or OpenAI or Mistral or some other) using a single function call. Being minimalist, it is very easy to use. Checkout the demo here : https://youtu.be/yhptm5rlevk?si=_F8Mg5ZBgRH05CR0

while this comparative, linear, graph tool could, of course, be used for every ai metric, here i focus on tracking llm reasoning capabilities because it seems this metric is the most important and revealing for gauging the state and pace of advances in ai technology across the board.

right now there are various benchmark comparison sites like the chatbot arena llm leaderboard that present this information on reasoning as well as other metrics, but they don't provide a constantly updated linear graph that plots the positions of each of the leading llms on reasoning according to various reasoning benchmarks like arc. in other words, they don't make it easy to, at a glance, see where the field stands.

such a comparative linear graph would not only provide ongoing snapshots of how fast llm reasoning capabilities are advancing, but also clearly reveal which companies are showing the fastest or strongest progress.

because new models that exceed o1 preview on different benchmarks are being released on what recently seems a weekly or faster pace, such a tool should be increasingly valuable to the ai research field. this constantly updated information would, of course, also be very valuable to investors trying to decide where to put their money.

i suppose existing llm comparison platforms like hugging face could do this, allowing us to so much more easily read the current standing and pace of progress of the various llms according to the different reasoning metrics. but if they or the other leaderboards are for whatever reason not doing this, there seems to exist an excellent opportunity for someone with the necessary technical skills to create this tool.

if the tool already exists, and i simply haven't yet discovered it, i hope someone will post the direct link.

Alibaba's latest reasoning model, QwQ has beaten o1-mini, o1-preview, GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet as well on many benchmarks. The model is just 32b and is completely open-sourced as well Checkout how to use it : https://youtu.be/yy6cLPZrE9k?si=wKAPXuhKibSsC810

listening to an audiobook recently, i was struck by the impression that, notwithstanding what he was actually saying, the author/narrator was not very intelligent.

it seemed to me that certain aspects of how he spoke, like how he pronounced and accentuated certain words, revealed his level of intelligence.

for me this assessment was much more of an impression or intuition than a reasoned out conclusion. however it occurred to me that ais may already be intelligent enough to gauge the intelligence level of humans based not on what we say, but rather on how we verbally say it.

are we perhaps there yet, and what are some possible use cases for such ai proficiency?

in his excellent book, the singularity is near, ray kurzweil suggests that ais will eventually become a billion times more intelligent than humans.

while the prospect is truly amazing, and something i would certainly welcome, recently i've begun to wonder if intelligence has a limit just like the speeds of sound and light have a limit.

for example understanding that 2+2+2=6 expresses a certain level of intelligence, whereas understanding that 2x3=6 seems to express a higher level, but there may not be an even higher level relative to arithmetic calculation.

it could be that we're already much closer to the intelligence limit than we realize, and once there science and medicine could solve any problem that's theoretically solvable.

thoughts?

we humans assess the intelligence of ais based on the content they generate. advances in ai reasoning now also allow them to assess the intelligence of human-generated content based solely on that content.

advances in facial analysis suggest that correlations between the intelligence level of human content and the physical features of the humans who generated that content is now also possible.

is this assessment correct? if so, what might be some constructive use cases for this capability?

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BabyAI

• Purpose is to facilitate research on grounded language learning. The current domain of BabyAI is a 2D gridworld in which synthetic natural-looking instructions (e.g. “put the red ball next to the box on your left”) require the agent to navigate the world including unlocking doors) and move objects to specified locations.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=rJeXCo0cYX

Crafter

• Crafter features randomly generated 2D worlds where the player needs to forage for food and water, find shelter to sleep, defend against monsters, collect materials, and build tools.

https://github.com/danijar/crafter?tab=readme-ov-file

TextWorld

• Microsoft TextWorld is an open-source, extensible engine that both generates and simulates text games. You can use it to train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to learn skills such as language understanding and grounding, combined with sequential decision making.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/textworld/

https://github.com/microsoft/TextWorld

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.11532

Baba is AI

• Humans solve problems by following existing rules and procedures, and also by leaps of creativity to redefine those rules and objectives. We test three state-of-the-art multi-modal large language models (OpenAI GPT-4o, Google Gemini-1.5-Pro and Gemini-1.5-Flash) and find that they fail dramatically when generalization requires that the rules of the game must be manipulated and combined.

https://github.com/nacloos/baba-is-ai

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13729

MiniHack

• MiniHack is a sandbox framework for easily designing rich and diverse environments for Reinforcement Learning (RL). The motivation behind MiniHack is to be able to perform RL experiments in a controlled setting while being able to increasingly scale the complexity of the tasks.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/minihack

https://minihack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

NetHack

• NetHack is an attractive research platform as it contains hundreds of enemy and object types, has complex and stochastic environment dynamics, and has a clearly defined goal (descend the dungeon, retrieve an amulet, and ascend) which can be achieved in a diverse set of ways. The game is considered one of the hardest in the world1, with winning episodes lasting 100,000s of steps, and a permadeath setting that starts agents at the beginning in a whole new world if they die in the dungeon. NetHack is even difficult to master for human players who often rely on external knowledge.

https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/file/764ba7236fb63743014fafbd87dd4f0e-Paper-Conference.pdf

https://github.com/upiterbarg/hihack

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.11889

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L8LiQ-cIWA