What happens when we get AGI?

What does AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) mean? That is the extension of the large language models, LLMs, that can control every data network in the world. Or the system can control physical tools that are connected under their dome. Normal LLM has its domain. The domain is like a state that involves certain actions. Drone control is one domain, and home appliances are one domain. Those domains can have multiple subdomains. The AGI interconnects those domains under one dome or one entirety. So how far are we from that model? 

The answer is more complicated than we can imagine. We can think that the LLM can control things like microwave ovens, but for controlling those tools the LLM requires a socket that it can use to adjust microwave ovens. So the man-shaped robot can use a microwave oven, or the other version is that the home appliances are equipped with a control system that the AI can use to command it. 

When we connect new things under AI control we can face the same thing as when we try to learn to use some new systems. When we buy something new like a microwave oven, we must learn how to use it. In the same way, the AI must learn to use those equipment. And we have two versions for making that thing. 

To use any tool the AI requires a model that it can use in that operation. The model can be in the central server that runs the AI. But where does that server get the model? That is the point. The operator can teach the AI to use the microwave oven as well as the drone. But the system that is connected to the AI can also involve that model. Things like quadcopters must involve programs that control the rotor’s positions. In those cases the operative model is in the robot, or some other thing. The LLM gives orders to robots where they must travel. 

Then the robot can use its internal systems to navigate and move to the location. But orders for autonomic operations are coming from the central systems. This kind of network-based solution is easier for programmers. In those solutions, every single machine that is connected under the LLM domain has its own operational model. The system is modular and each module is independently programmed. 

Basically, if we think that AGI is the tool that just connects multiple devices under one domain, we could do that thing immediately. We can use man-shaped robots that can do almost everything. But the key word is “almost”. 

 Let’s return to the microwave oven. The reason why it’s hard to make that precise thing is the lack of standard user interfaces. The robot must learn to use every single microwave oven independently. That means it must make an independent model for each microwave oven. If there is a system where we can put seconds and minutes separately, the systems where there are only minutes in the timer are not the same. We learn that difference in minutes. But for robots, we must make an independent model of how to adjust the timer. 

Many systems in the world are so easy to use that nobody has wasted time creating standards for them. Easy systems are easy for people, but then we must think about things like the microwave oven. There are button- or toggle timers and that makes them hard to learn. For robots and AI the difficulty is this in the fact all microwave oven models require their independent model of how to use them. 

The robot must connect images from the user manual to the microwave oven’s interface. There is a possibility that if the system does not learn independently the “teacher” or programmer takes an image of the front panel, and then puts the buttons in the right places. Then the AI can learn the rest of the task from the user manual.