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Superintelligence FAQ - LessWrong
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Nick Bostrom defines this superintelligence as “an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom and social skills.”
Paul Leonardi • The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI
A superintelligent system could have disastrous effects even if it had a neutral goal and lacked self-awareness. “We cannot blithely assume,” Bostrom wrote, “that a superintelligence will necessarily share any of the final values stereotypically associated with wisdom and intellectual development in humans—scientific curiosity, benevolent concern f
... See moreMeghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
LeCun points to four essential characteristics of human intelligence that current AI systems, including LLMs, can’t replicate: reasoning, planning, persistent memory, and understanding the physical world. He stresses that LLMs’ reliance on textual data severely limits their understanding of reality: “We’re easily fooled into thinking they are intel... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
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The fear is that if human beings presented an obstacle to achieving one of those goals—reverse global warming, for example—a superintelligent agent could easily, even accidentally, wipe us off the face of the earth. For a computer program whose intellectual imagination so dwarfed our own, this wouldn’t require anything as crude as gun-toting robots
... See moreKai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Since the 1950s, discussions about AI have largely revolved around a big, tantalizing question: What can machines do, and where might they hit a wall? Will they ever truly think, understand, or maybe even become conscious? Could they reach the so-called “heights of human intelligence”? And then there’s that shadowy question looming in the backgroun
... See moreShai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
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The AI control problem is defined as the problem concerned with how to build superintelligence that will aid its creators, and avoid the chances of it deliberately or inadvertently causing harm.