The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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Saved by Kyle Steinike and
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Saved by Kyle Steinike and
THE NEXT ENERGY TRANSITION
Recall the four features of the coming wave: asymmetry, hyper-evolution, omni-use, and autonomy.
The great power struggles of the twenty-first century are predicated on technological superiority—a race to control the coming wave.
When GPT-4 launched in March 2023, results were again impressive. As with its predecessors, you can ask GPT-4 to compose poetry in the style of Emily Dickinson and it obliges; ask it to pick up from a random snippet of The Lord of the Rings and you are suddenly reading a plausible imitation of Tolkien; request start-up business plans and the output
... See morewe should refocus the entire debate around near-term capabilities and how they will evolve in the coming years.
Are there resource or engineering constraints on its invention, development, and deployment?
If you were looking to monitor and direct AI research in the past, you would likely have got it wrong, blocking or boosting work that eventually proved irrelevant, entirely missing the most important breakthroughs quietly brewing on the sidelines. Science and technology research is inherently unpredictable, exceptionally open, and growing fast. Gov
... See moreAs we stand at this turning point, we are faced with a choice—a choice between a future of unparalleled possibility and a future of unimaginable peril.
figuring out ways to reconcile profit and social purpose in hybrid organizational structures is the best way to navigate the challenges that lie ahead,