On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
*> I ask ChatGPT questions because it knows more stuff than I do. But that > doesn't mean it has children it cares about or even its own health.* *Then why did an AI resort to blackmail in an attempt to avoid being turned off? * *AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed* <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go> *And why do you believe that emotion is harder to generate than intelligence? * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 4r5 > > On 11/7/2025 3:45 AM, John Clark wrote: > > *There's a lot of disagreement about when the singularity will happen so I > did a little research to find some quotes from people who know the most > about AI think it will happen. If they're right then Ray Kurzweil's > prediction of 2039 (recently modified from his previous prediction of 2045) > is still way too conservative. * > *==* > *Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI * > > *“Our latest model feels smarter than me in almost every way…”* > > *"In some big sense, ChatGPT is already more powerful than any human who > has ever lived. We may have already passed the point where artificial > intelligence surpasses human intelligence"* > > *Dario Amodei, the head of Anthropic:* > > *“It is my guess that by 2026 or 2027, we will have A.I. systems that are > broadly better than all humans at almost all things.”* > > *“Artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to be smarter than most Nobel > Prize winners before the end of this decade.”* > > *Elon Musk, you may have heard of him: * > > *“If you define AGI (artificial general intelligence) as smarter than the > smartest human, I think it’s probably next year, within two years.”* > > *“My guess is that we’ll have AI that is smarter than any one human > probably around the end of next year.”* > > *“I always thought AI was going to be way smarter than humans and an > existential risk. And that's turning out to be true.”* > > *John K Clark* > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0s8pBV6e8%3D7JgwMsmjT9vV9i20C_%3DxnPqOLtvU7JKb6Q%40mail.gmail.com.
