If a corporation thinks its gonna be profitable it wlill do anything, no matter what, because that is the point of a corporation. A corporation will fuck your mother if it thought it will make money off it .

The corporation that creates a functioning AGI first is going to be world wide player like we have never seen before. I think the biggest concern is can they control it. The only limitation to it's ability to expand itself is computational power. The future is going to be wild.

It all comes down to monetizing that AGI. If it worked on internal projects only and did not need to interact with customers, then your example is likely correct. But if the AGI can become the product and they can sell access to it? They’ll be rich.

Would a corporation need to?

If you create the model there's a good chance open source is within a few years of also creating that model. You would only have dominance for a short while, relatively speaking, unless your AGI created the next AGI, in which case there will be two exponential curves separated by a short distance.

If an AGI were released to the general public, it would be devastating. Think of the worst thing you could do with a nimble AI that can learn and do anything, and it's only a matter of time before someone would use it for that purpose. The power of an AGI would be akin to a nuclear bomb, but for anything connected to the internet.

There are trolls and terrorists and mercenaries who would use it to pwn corporations and governments, disabling or even destroying public utilities, banks, hospitals, and rival entities. Not all of these entities are vulnerable, but enough would be that the attacks would completely disrupt trade and economies, and possibly the world economy. The US, Russia, China, and North Korea would not hesitate to obtain and weaponize AGI.

I continue to wonder at the paranoia surrounding the anticipated AI singularity when all we have seen so far is expert systems, which do not have to pretend to be conscious, and elaborations on the clever hans swindle. This, imo, is the immediate threat, an AI fake that's good enough to fool a lot of people. The computers that could do this are expensive and expensive to run, some rich corp would likely figure a way to use it to make money, big woopdedoo. If you are anticipating the advent of a true singularity, get comfortable, it will be a long wait. AGI? Changing the acronym just makes it look like the goalposts were moved. The advances we are seeing so far in the latest round of equine genius has also increased our potential to bamboozle each other. And the idea that a machine with an off switch could wind up ruling the world and wiping out mankind is something that should stay in the pulp magazines.

Why do corporate research publish papers and attend and present at scientific conferences on AI and quantum computing regularly? Why does it seem like with every innovation of one company, the other companies and startups are just one step behind?

Who exactly do you think develops AI at these companies? Business school grads? MBAs? Young coding boot-camp go-getters looking to strike gold with a killer app?

Get your head out of the conspiracy sand and read an actual piece of information by a professional on what the industry actually looks like (and, as they hire high-demand highly specialized scientists, what they get in their contracts). Then come back if you have a serious question of whether a groundbreaking discovery will be kept a secret.

[Edit: on third reading of OP's post, it's more clear what they are arguing. Thus my post here is now a message not to criticize OP (which wouldn't make sense given their post), but rather is more or less my supplementary argument of the same essential point as OP -- which is that nobody is hiding an AGI (though I don't know if OP agrees with me that at this stage no corporate R&D will hide an AGI).]

Corp exists to make money. If AGI gets them ahead of the competition and makes them money then yes they will.

Because realistically if you’re able to make an AGI then someone else will be able to too. If you don’t release it as a product, someone else will because there’s a gap in the market.

They would release the AGI because of competitors nipping at their heels. That, and it would make them a lot of money to be first.

I would buy your argument if one company was years ahead of everyone else. Right now the gap is more like months.

Would an AGI realistically allow itself to be controlled by a single corporation?

WTF does an Adjusted Gross Income have to do with any of this?
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=agi+meaning

if one company in the us got access to AGI, every other tech company in the country will send all of their lobbyists to DC to either get AGI outlawed or force them to sell the code to prevent a monopoly.

frankly i think once a single company figures out AGI itll only lead to dozens of other companies following shortly after. if a dozen companies have AGI i dont see how it can remain something only a select few have. at least one of those companies will realize that its quicker profit just to sell the AI to other companies, governments, or the public.

This would require a massive conspiracy between buisness men.

Impossible.

It doesn't matter. The first AGI being made means the technology to create it exists, and so will also be created elsewhere. OpenAI thought they had a permanent monopoly on image generation and kept it to themselves in the name of "safety", then MidJourney and Stable Diffusion came out. Not revealing an AGI will only delay it's public release, not prevent it from ever happening.

Why did Ford sell cars instead of manufacturing them, keeping them, and just running a big taxi service?

The last people to acknowledge that an AGI is actually AGI will be its creators. When Garry Kasparov played Deep Blue, he saw within it a deep sort of human intelligence; insight that said more than the chess AIs he was used to. Deep Blue's creators did not appreciate the chess genius it was capable of, because they were not brilliant chess players. Under a microscope, a human brain does not look very intelligent. So too will the creators of AGI deny its real intelligence, because they know its artificiality and foibles more than anyone.

People hate this argument usually, but i see a role for government here. If a company makes a true agi, that company will be visited by the govt real fast. (Im in Scandinavia, so my govt doing this is not very scary)

Now, depending on the govt who do the visiting this may or may not be a good thing. But there is atleast a chance government regulation will lead to better outcomes than Microsoft taking over the world.

No.

They will keep it to themselves as long as possible.

It's funny how everyone turns to socialist systems when capitalism fails them. That's not going to work out the way you think though. You're just taking power from those that have it and spreading it around. It'll just find it's way to whoever figures out how to use capitalize on it the best.

The problem with society isn't fair access to things like information or technology, it's with how people use them. Socialist systems never work for capitalist societies. Capitalism is just the economy used by fascists, and such people always seek to consolidate power and wealth for themselves. That inevitably leads to the majority being left out in the cold.

Actual socialism is when a society wants to ensure that all members have what they need to survive and prosper. But you all thought you'd be the ones to make it to the top, so you competed with each other over everything. Now you're crying because someone else is there instead.

Socialism will not save you, because you are not a socialist.

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The first instance of AGI isn't going to replace all those employees, it will only have the capacity of a single human. For this reason we'll see them start selling access to it (the trend has already begun) and then sell "personal assistants". Holding onto AGI until it's sufficient to replace all the company's workers would risk losing out to a competitor that releases theirs to the public. Once everyone has one of these personal assistants it's no longer possible to close AGI off to the world.

Here is the thing with powerful technology and powerful people. They all require underlings, maintenance, assistants, janitors...

Such a powerful secret wouldn't remain a secret for long. Especially if it was being used/hoarded maliciously.

Have you not been paying attention to the news today? It's becoming increasingly clear that top AI labs have finally stumbled upon proto-AGI and are afraid to release it.

They've already invented something moderately useful which will make them trillionaires. Now they are afraid of leasing actually revolutionary because that would fuck everything up. Once it's public knowledge that AGI is possible, it's only a matter of time before more companies produce it and the market for their proto-agi products dries up.

Just like how Google had a decent LLM for years but didn't release it because they were already making a killing in the search engine business. Once you become an industry leader with you don't fire every employee and upend the whole industry.

oh oh oh corporations corporations evil evil oh oh

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