The emergence of functional AGI

The increasing pervasiveness of transformer-driven AI in every domain for intellectual tasks will inevitably lead to a massive evolution of Foundation Models. Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) models will soon overtake LLMs.

Functional Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will probably emerge in the future through necessity. AI is not conscious, sentient, or human in any sense. However, as shown in several NLP benchmarks, AI doesn’t need to be conscious to outperform humans in many fields.

To illustrate the emergence of functional AGI in this section, we will speculate on the future of LLM evaluations and controls, and how this may lead to AI replicants.

Let’s do the math:

• BIG-bench is an LLM evaluation platform: https://github.com/google/BIG-bench/blob/main/bigbench/benchmark_tasks/README.md.
• The platform contains 200+ NLP tasks.
• The Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) at the...