Evidence

Format Book / Offline paper

"György Buzsáki challenges the outside-in view of the brain with an inside-out model that emphasizes internally organized activity, action, and prediction."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Brains, Clockworks, and CPUs

Source title The Brain from Inside Out

Source authors György Buzsáki

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"AGI borrowed from older intellectual machinery including cognitive science, neuroscience, and interdisciplinary approaches to intelligence."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Brains, Clockworks, and CPUs

Source title AGI-08 Call for Participation

Source authors AGI-08 Organizing Committee

Source year 2008

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"The 2008 AGI conference framed the field as a return to AI’s original ambition of creating intelligence as a whole rather than building specialized systems."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Brains, Clockworks, and CPUs

Source title AGI-08 Call for Participation

Source authors AGI-08 Organizing Committee

Source year 2008

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"That gap between narrow competence and broad, transferable understanding is one of the central distinctions behind Artificial General Intelligence."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER AGI & The Synthesizer - Root

Source title Position: Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI

Source authors Meredith Ringel Morris, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Noah Fiedel, Tris Warkentin, Allan Dafoe, Aleksandra Faust, Clement Farabet, Shane Legg

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Some media coverage treated the chess robot as though it possessed agency or humanlike intentions rather than describing it simply as a specialized machine."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER AGI & The Synthesizer - Root

Source title Why did this chess-playing robot break a child’s finger?

Source authors Serena Smith

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"The child’s faster-than-expected response exposed a mismatch between the robot’s programmed expectations and the physical interaction taking place."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER AGI & The Synthesizer - Root

Source title Why did this chess-playing robot break a child’s finger?

Source authors Serena Smith

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"This was a specialized contraption executing a speckled task inside a narrow frame."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER AGI & The Synthesizer - Root

Source title News

Source authors Moscow Open Organizers

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"The boy finished the tournament with his finger in a cast."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER AGI & The Synthesizer - Root

Source title 7-Year-Old's Finger Broken By Chess-playing Robot

Source authors Anthony Levin

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"The robot and the kid were moving pieces until Christopher rushed his move and reached for the board while the robot was still completing its own turn."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER AGI & The Synthesizer - Root

Source title Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent

Source authors The Guardian

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"In 2022, a seven-year-old boy named Christopher played against a chess robot at the Moscow Open, where the robot caught his finger and fractured it."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER AGI & The Synthesizer - Root

Source title 7-Year-Old's Finger Broken By Chess-playing Robot

Source authors Anthony Levin

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance high