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8 connected korrents · 7 moments on record from 1 Apr 2025 to 3 Sept 2026. Nearly all of them are about AGI.
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Dismissing human-level AI as science fiction is now unserious, because even the sceptical experts put it within a decade or two.
Holds HTHelen Toner
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Same subject: AGI, AI alignment
A human being is not an AGI: we lack a huge amount of knowledge and rely on continual learning instead, so continual learning is what superintelligence should mean.
Holds ISIlya Sutskever
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Same subject: AGI, AI alignment
Even generalised superintelligence will change society more slowly than the AGI community expects, because intelligence is not the only rate limiter.
Holds BTBret Taylor
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Same subject: AGI, AI alignment
There is a 25% chance of AGI by 2027, a 50% chance by 2034, and a 75% chance by 2045
Holds SAScott Alexander
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Same subject: AGI
A country outside the AI supply chain should just buy the index — which works only in the world where AI ends up commoditised rather than concentrated.
Holds AIAlex Imas
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Same subject: AGI
A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted.
Holds GMGary Marcus
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Same subject: AGI
A poor country should prioritise owning a piece of AI over retraining its workers, but it should not bet everything on that.
Holds PTPhil Trammell
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Same subject: AGI
AGI is not a finish line to be crossed but a smear with width, and we are already standing on it.
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Paul Graham
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Same subject: AGI
AGI worth the name would combine human adaptiveness with machine reliability, not reproduce human performance including human failures.
Holds GMGary Marcus