Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

The problem we have in AI right now is not that it’s getting too powerful, it’s that it’s not nearly powerful enough. Very little has changed thus far because of AI, and won’t until models get faster, cheaper, more accurate, and more “intelligent”. Building safe AI is insanely important, but any goal that is half in and half out of driving progress... See more

It also could not be a better time for a paradigm shift. AGI and likely soon after superintelligence will force us to rethink human role in society. In the new world, the value of the human brain is increasingly defined on how creative it can be. Cosmic optimism helps us navigate this transformation by emphasizing focus on the very human qualities ... See more

The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the assumpt

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