How would an AGI prevent others from competing? Sincere question. That seems like something that ASI would be capable of. If another company released an AGI, how would the original stifle it? I get that the original can self-improve to try to stay ahead, but that doesn't necessarily mean it self-improves the best or most efficiently, right?
AGI used to be synonymous with ASI; it's still unclear to me it's even possible to build a sufficiently general AI - that is, as general as humans - without it being an ASI just by virtue of being in silico, thus not being constrained in scale or efficiency like our brains are.
If it was first, it could have self-improved more, to the point that it has the capacity to prevent competition, while the competition does not have the capacity to defend itself against superior AGI. This all is so hypothetical and frankly far from what we're seeing in the market now. Funny how we're all discussing dystopian scifi scenarios now.
