Re: AI takeoff speed

2023-06-24 Thread 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List
We as a species, need AI to design for us the machinery that helps us survive and prosper. Energy, materials, space travel, carbon abatement, medical advances that are vast.  Beyond this, if Chat_GPT5 (due out sometime?) then wants to go explore the Milky Way on His own, we should fondly, wave

Re: AI takeoff speed

2023-06-23 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 1:49 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *> An interesting comparison. But it avoids the obvious lesson. > There was a smooth evolutionary landscape leading to homo sapiens. What > happened was that homo sapiens killed off all the near competitors, * You may be right but you don't

Re: AI takeoff speed

2023-06-23 Thread Brent Meeker
On Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 01:45:41 PM EDT, John Clark wrote: "It intuitively feels like lemurs, gibbons, chimps, and homo erectus were all more or less just monkey-like things plus or minus the ability to wave sharp sticks - and then came homo sapiens, with the potential to build nukes and

Re: AI takeoff speed

2023-06-22 Thread 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List
very interesting article about when the AI intelligence explosion will occur it's at: AI takeoff Speed I have picked out a few quotations from it that I like: "The term “slow AI takeoff”, Davidson is a misnomer. Like skiing down the side of Mount Everest, progress in AI capabilities can be simul

AI takeoff speed

2023-06-20 Thread John Clark
I found a very interesting article about when the AI intelligence explosion will occur it's at: AI takeoff Speed <https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/davidson-on-takeoff-speeds?utm_source=substack_id=89120_id=127386375_medium=email_content=share=true=true> I have picked out a few quot