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Alternatively, we're approaching the limits of what can be done with current approaches, and get mostly stuck there for 20 years like happened to AI in the 80's.

Future prediction is always dodgy.



This would really be the best case scenario...

I hope you don't plan for best case scenarios when doing your database backups, much less the future of society on earth.


FTFY: Worst case scenario.

Change will come eventually and it will be painful. But I don’t want my kids to deal with it - I’d rather take it head on and deal with the consequences then praying that we push it to the next generation.


Even if nothing changes from here, we have already just crossed a civilization-transforming threshold in machine intelligence.


Intelligence? More a chinese room.




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