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> The brain is analog and chemical, AI will be digital and silicon.

Says who?

Sure, if you assume that “AGI is just scaling up GPT”, it will be digital and silicon. But that’s a big assumption.

For all we know, AGI will only ever, if it exists, be analog and chemical.

> We have no idea how the map from one to the other.

Plus, even if we had an easy one-to-one mapping function between them, we don’t understand the source well enough to do the mapping.



It does not need to be, but today the computers we use are overwhelmingly based on silicon. Also OP mentioned AI, not AGI.




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