The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Does it have autonomous characteristics?

Little is ultimately more valuable than intelligence. Intelligence is the wellspring and the director, architect, and facilitator of the world economy.

Does the technology enable asymmetric impact? Think of a drone swarm against the conventional military or a tiny computer or biological virus damaging vital social systems.

Technology is ultimately political because technology is a form of power. And perhaps the single overriding characteristic of the coming wave is that it will democratize access to power. As we saw in part 2, it will enable people to do things in the real world. I think of it like this: just as the costs of processing and broadcasting information pl

It was as if a group of Korean robots had shown up at Yankee Stadium and beat America’s all-star baseball team.

the model doesn’t use our vocabulary. Instead, it creates a new vocabulary of common tokens that helps it spot patterns across billions and billions of documents. In the attention map, every token bears some relationship to every token before it, and for a given input sentence the strength of this relationship describes something about the importan

the cost of training an equivalent model has fallen tenfold over the last two years.

Is the technology omni-use and general-purpose or specific?

Technical safety, up close, in the code, in the lab, is the first item on any containment agenda.

Second, they are developing fast, a kind of hyper-evolution, iterating, improving, and