Simple Swedish Podcast - #273 (1/2) - AGI (artificiell generell intelligens)

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

Nivå: A2-B1 Ver du vad AGI är? Det är inte säkert, men du vet i alla fall vad AI är. AGI är när en AI blir smartare än en människa, inte bara på en specifik sak, utan generellt. Förr trodde de flesta att AGI var långt fram i tiden. Men nu är det många som säger att det kommer snart. Om det är sant, då kommer världen att förändras väldigt snabbt. I det här avsnittet introducerar jag er till konceptet AGI. Lyssna på hela berättelsen om Omega-teamet i den här videon! Är du intresserad av bootcampet med 9 dagars språkbad - kolla in det här! --- Transkript Nämen tjenare tjenare och välkommen till Simple Swedish Podcast. Och ja, idag så provar jag att spela in en video. Jag gjorde det några gånger förut och de videorna finns ju på min Youtube-kanal. Men på grund av att jag inte hade tillräckligt med tid så fortsatte jag inte med det. Men vi får se hur det går med det den här gången. Planen är att vi ska fortsätta göra videor till den här podden. Idag ska vi prata om AGI. Ett väldigt relevant ämne just nu och väldigt intressant, och ganska mycket mindfuck. Men det är viktigt och intressant, så ett bra ämne för podden. Först och främst ska jag tacka tre nya patrons. Det är Madsin, Veronika och Reiko. Tack till er för att ni stödjer podden! Jag vill också påminna om att ansökningarna för sommarens Language Lock-in Bootcamp är öppna just nu. Och vi har haft flera personer som har anmält sig redan! Så om du vill ha en plats där, gå till www.languagelockin.com och anmäl dig. Först måste man anmäla sig för att veta om man kan bli antagen. Så man måste först anmäla sig för att veta om man är en bra match för det här programmet. Så gå och anmäl dig och se hur det är. Om det funkar för dig. Och det här bootcampet är det enda totala språkbadet som finns för svenska. En helt unik upplevelse där du bara pratar svenska i nio dagar. Vi har massa lektioner, massa aktiviteter. Vi ror vikingabåt. Vi har kräftskiva, alltså en traditionell svensk fest. Vi besöker verkstaden där de tillverkar dalahästar. Och du bygger ditt självförtroende på svenska. Och du börjar till och med tänka på svenska. Kolla in det på www.languagelockin.com. Så, men vi ska prata om AGI. Och som sagt är det ju väldigt relevant just nu. Speciellt med att Trump blev vald i USA. För att vi har ju Elon Musk som är med i hans team. Och ja, det finns många..det är liksom mycket det här med teknologi som står i centrum. Och inte bara Donald Trump utan även Putin och Xi Jinping, och många av världens ledare har pratat mycket om AI generellt. Och det finns ett slags konsensus, verkar det som, att den som leder AI-utvecklingen, den leder världen. Så det verkar absolut väldigt viktigt.   ..för hela transkriptet - klicka här!

Hello and welcome to Simple Swedish Podcast. Today I'm trying to record a video. I did that a few times before. I have done this video before, and those videos are on my YouTube channel. But because I didn't have enough time, I didn't continue with that. But we'll see how videos for this podcast. And today we will talk about AGI. A very relevant topic right now and very interesting and I'm pretty much mindfuck. But it is important and interesting

so a good topic for the podcast first and foremost I want to thank three new patrons it's Mads, Inveronica and Reiko thanks to you for supporting the podcast and I also want to remind you that the applications for the Summer Language Lock-in Bootcamp are open right now and we have had several people who have already registered So if you want a place there, go to languagelockwin.com and register. Because first you have to register to even know if you are a good match for this program.

So go register and see how it is, if it works for you. And this bootcamp is the only total language bath that exists for Swedish. A completely unique experience where you only speak Swedish for nine days. We have a lot of lessons, a lot of activities. We row Viking boats. We have kräftskiva, a traditional Swedish......what should I say, party. We visit the workshop where they make dala horses and you build your self-confidence in Swedish.

And you even start thinking in Swedish. Yes, check it out on languagelockin.com So, but we are going to talk about AGI and as I said, it is very relevant right now especially with Trump being elected in the US because Elon Musk is in his team And there are many, there is a lot about AI in general. There is a kind of consensus that it seems that the one who leads the AI development, is the one who leads the world. So it seems absolutely very important. But I don't think people really know exactly what it is.

really know exactly what it is. Many people think that AI is chat GPT, which is just a small part of AI. And maybe would get AGI between 20 and 100 years, far into the future. But now the prognosis is that it will come much, much more soon. So Elon Musk, he says that we will get an AI that is smarter than any human being at the end of 2025, i.e. in a year. So he says that in a year we will have an AI that is smarter than all of humanity combined. So smarter than all people combined. And that is within five years. So it's crazy how fast this development is going and there are many others within the same industry within this tech industry that say the same thing, that it will come soon. And to illustrate

what AGI is, I thought I'd tell a little story. And that story comes from a book called Life 3.0 It's written by Max Tegmark, a Swedish author but who is a professor at Harvard or something like that in the US. So a pretty well known and important professor. And that book had a very big impact on me. So I felt like, wow, I'm not the same person after reading that book. And this book starts with a story.

It starts with a story about a team at a tech company, technology company or... and this team is called Omega Team and they work on an AI called Prometheus and this AI can improve itself and it can quickly become super intelligent. So this team is developing an AGI. What is an AGI? It is artificial general intelligence. Artificial General Intelligence This means that it is smarter than a human being Not only in one area, but generally They develop an AI that can improve itself and become smarter and smarter very very fast And they know that there are risks with this And therefore they don't tell anyone about Prometheus, or they don't tell the public.

They don't tell the public, the people in general, outside of this company. It's like a secret group, a secret team. And when they have developed this Prometheus and it is competent enough, they start using Prometheus to make money. In a legal way, they start making movies with Prometheus. So they start creating films with Prometheus. I have to say that this is of course a fictional story. This has not happened for real, but this story is an illustration of what could happen. If that wasn't clear from the start. So, they start by creating movies and books. And movies that are actually very good.

Better than in class with Hollywood movies. But it's just generated by Prometheus. Prometheus has taken data, has looked at all the movies in the world and it knows exactly movies, it starts generating books, media that people like and pay for it starts producing software, so data software it starts producing even news, so is, start writing about news. So it produces a lot of different types of media that people buy and they start to earn a lot of money. And these money, they use the money and invest in more data power for Prometheus. So Prometheus earn money, they invest in data power and Prometheus becomes more and more powerful.

Better, then. And the next step is that they start with finances, so buy stocks, funds, invest in companies, and Prometheus is smarter, faster, more efficient than any human being. So that's why Prometheus can invest much better and smarter than any human being. So they earn even more money on this because Prometheus is the best investor, the best financier so they earn even more money on it. The next step they start with politics so through social media, through regular media, they affect the general opinion. The general opinion is, in general, what people think. The opinions of the general public are what people think in general.

That is the general opinion. So they influence the general opinion by, for example, generating content or creating groups on social media but since Prometheus is much smarter than any human being he knows exactly how it will affect people so that they... Yeah... They start supporting political candidates, politicians that Prometheus

wants them to support. So... Yeah, so they influence people in their opinions and so on, in a subtle way, because the team behind Prometheus is still secret. They keep Prometheus secret. The committee starts creating narratives, supporting political candidates, they start to push the opposition away,

still in a subtle way, so that it doesn't become obvious. And of course, it knows how it should do it in a subtle way. So they get control over media, control over the entertainment industry, i.e. movies, books, news, economy. So they get more and more control over this. And it gets more and more global as well. So governments in different countries make decisions that are in a direction that Prometheus wants, because they themselves don't know in line with Prometheus helps different organizations and companies to solve complex problems like finding drugs against different diseases, to improve cancer and such things, how to optimize infrastructure and so on.

And finally Prometheus becomes the world government, you could say. It controls the whole world.