Do AGIs Dream of Electric Sheep?

Ed Daniels
CodeX
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7 min readApr 19, 2023

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Will an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) dream of electric sheep? Will it dream at all? It is time to refine our expectations for our new companions now that their arrival seems imminent.

  • We imagined that our AGIs will be like superintelligent superhumans.
  • We imagined that we will talk with them as we talk with each other; that they will be like our smartest friend only…

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Ed Daniels
CodeX
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Consultant, philosopher, father, grandfather. Perpetually mulling over humanity’s (and my own) future.