There is a better explenation: there's no practical point to GAI.
Humans are automatons - so we see a 'single unit' of intelligence.
The Internet is a vastly connected system.
A 'basic robot' in a factory in China can have access to 'all the world's information'.
The power of 'masses of data, services, systems' all combined, means that 'the Internet' itself, in the broadest sense, will be much more intelligent than any GAI anyhow.
Example: Is Siri 'AI'? We don't think of 'Siri' as a thing, rather a service, a front end to a lot of things.
Well - 'Siri' is going to get really, really smart and be able to do a ginormous number of things in the future, including have 'human level' conversations with you, predict your needs and moods. She'll be talking to a billion people at once! Isn't that even 'beyond' GAI?
The factory will be able to take a design, command robots to prepare, place orders for parts, design work schedules for humans, prepare shipping, anticipate problems. The factory is waay smarter than a human, is it 'GAI'?
Siri, the Factory, your car, the grid of traffic, the financial system, distribution networks - it's all working together to do things utterly beyond any individual 'GAI'.
And as these things develop, there really never is a real economic driver for a true, atomic style 'GAI' like you see in the movies. There's no reason for a company to spend $500B building a 'Data' from Star Treck - because everything he could do, would otherwise be performed much more efficiently, cheaply and intelligently by a system or group of systems oriented towards those tasks.
Humans are automatons - so we see a 'single unit' of intelligence.
The Internet is a vastly connected system.
A 'basic robot' in a factory in China can have access to 'all the world's information'.
The power of 'masses of data, services, systems' all combined, means that 'the Internet' itself, in the broadest sense, will be much more intelligent than any GAI anyhow.
Example: Is Siri 'AI'? We don't think of 'Siri' as a thing, rather a service, a front end to a lot of things.
Well - 'Siri' is going to get really, really smart and be able to do a ginormous number of things in the future, including have 'human level' conversations with you, predict your needs and moods. She'll be talking to a billion people at once! Isn't that even 'beyond' GAI?
The factory will be able to take a design, command robots to prepare, place orders for parts, design work schedules for humans, prepare shipping, anticipate problems. The factory is waay smarter than a human, is it 'GAI'?
Siri, the Factory, your car, the grid of traffic, the financial system, distribution networks - it's all working together to do things utterly beyond any individual 'GAI'.
And as these things develop, there really never is a real economic driver for a true, atomic style 'GAI' like you see in the movies. There's no reason for a company to spend $500B building a 'Data' from Star Treck - because everything he could do, would otherwise be performed much more efficiently, cheaply and intelligently by a system or group of systems oriented towards those tasks.