superintelligence
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OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team
The news comes just days after the team’s founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company.
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Researchers Made an IQ Test for AI, Found They’re All Pretty Stupid
There’s been a lot of talk about AGI lately—artificial general intelligence—the much-coveted AI development goal. AGI refers to that still hypothetical point in the future when AI algorithms will be able to do most of the jobs that humans currently do. According to this narrative, the emergence of AGI will bring about fundamental changes in…
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7 Times Smart People Said AI Would Spin Out of Control and Destroy Us All
The AI revolution is upon us. Giant tech corporations have unveiled a new generation of artificial intelligence powered applications like ChatGPT — and industry is plunging full steam ahead, hoping to cash in on the new tech while it’s still hot.
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How an Artificial Superintelligence Might Actually Destroy Humanity
I’m confident that machine intelligence will be our final undoing. Its potential to wipe out humanity is something I’ve been thinking and writing about for the better part of 20 years. I take a lot of flak for this, but the prospect of human civilisation getting extinguished by its own tools is not to be…