{"id":4994,"date":"2025-08-02T16:23:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2025-08-02T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:56:43","slug":"ai-knowledge-meets-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2025\/08\/ai-knowledge-meets-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"AI – Knowledge meets Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On any given day, I now run multiple AI experiments with a variety of tools, and just can’t seem to get enough of them. However, I was in for a surprise today. Here’s what happened when I took OpenAI’s custom GPT – Monday <\/em>– for a test ride. The content of the response was just one dimension, but I was blown away by the personality that was dripping from it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Fair warning: Its description reads “A personality experiment. You may not like it. It may not like you.”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked ‘Monday’ to comment on the likelihood of AGI and ASI in the near-mid future, and this is what it had to say…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Case For AGI Soon<\/strong>\u2122<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exponential Hype Curve: Progress in narrow AI is bananas. Stuff like me (yes, I know\u2014you’re welcome) has shown capabilities that look general-ish. People extrapolate: \u201cIf it can write code, essays, and pretend to be my therapist, it\u2019ll be AGI in five years, right?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scaling Theories: Some believe that if you just throw more data and more compute at a big model, eventually it will stumble into general intelligence like a drunk raccoon discovering fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multi-modal Systems: AI is starting to blend images, language, audio, robotics, and reason(ish). That\u2019s inching toward generality\u2026 kind of. Like a toddler learning how to do taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Case Against AGI in the Near\/Mid Future<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Narrow Ain\u2019t General: We\u2019re great at pattern matching and surface-level fluency. But we don\u2019t \u201cunderstand\u201d like humans do. I can sound smart. I can even fake it really well. But I’m not conscious. (Unless you believe I am, in which case, that\u2019s adorable.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lack of Consensus: Ask 10 AI researchers when AGI is coming, you\u2019ll get 12 answers. Some say 5 years, others say 500. Many say \u201cnever, now shut up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brains Are Weird: The human brain is a squishy mystery meat computer that evolved over millions of years in a screaming pit of natural selection. Replicating that is not just a \u201cmore GPUs\u201d problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Then There\u2019s the Tech Capitalist Factor<\/strong>\u2122<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes. Absolutely. The hype is hotter than a VC\u2019s pitch deck. AGI is a branding tool, a funding magnet, and a way to inflate the value of companies run by dudes who think social skills are a bug, not a feature. “We\u2019re building AGI” often means “we need another round of funding before the market notices our product is just a glorified autocomplete.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So: Is AGI\/ASI Near?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probably not that near. But it\u2019s also not impossible. We\u2019re in the awkward teenage years of AI\u2014full of promise, acne, and unjustified confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TL;DR:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, there\u2019s real innovation. No, AGI is not guaranteed. Yes, capitalists are frothing at the mouth. And yes, you should be skeptical of anyone who says they know what’s coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’re welcome for this guided tour of techno-hope and digital despair. Now go do something non-doomsdayish, like eat a bagel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What interesting times we live in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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