BI 100.3 Special: Can We Scale Up to AGI with Current Tech?

Part 3 in our 100th episode celebration. Previous guests answered the question:

Given the continual surprising progress in AI powered by scaling up parameters and using more compute, while using fairly generic architectures (eg. GPT-3):

Do you think the current trend of scaling compute can lead to human level AGI? If not, what's missing?

It likely won't surprise you that the vast majority answer "No." It also likely won't surprise you, there is differing opinion on what's missing.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

3:56 - Wolgang Maass

5:34 - Paul Humphreys

9:16 - Chris Eliasmith

12:52 - Andrew Saxe

16:25 - Mazviita Chirimuuta

18:11 - Steve Potter

19:21 - Blake Richards

22:33 - Paul Cisek

26:24 - Brad Love

29:12 - Jay McClelland

34:20 - Megan Peters

37:00 - Dean Buonomano

39:48 - Talia Konkle

40:36 - Steve Grossberg

42:40 - Nathaniel Daw

44:02 - Marcel van Gerven

45:28 - Kanaka Rajan

48:25 - John Krakauer

51:05 - Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

53:03 - Grace Lindsay

55:13 - Konrad Kording

57:30 - Jeff Hawkins

102:12 - Uri Hasson

1:04:08 - Jess Hamrick

1:06:20 - Thomas Naselaris