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19 days agoSeriously. It seems like the subconscious anxieties and fears of the writer’s mind come through in statements like this and a few others. Whatever positives (real and imagined) there are about the situation, there is an underlying loss of personal autonomy that causes a sense of unease. The thing that’s continuing to intrigue me now is: did the writer intend for that to come through, showing the losses a society of that nature would sustain as a commentary on those that promote it, or are they unaware that their words reveal that distress and anxiety? Idk, weird article.
Heres a summary of the predictions made, from never all the way up to within the year. It seems to me the closer you get to the dollar bill the sooner the projections become.
“Some experts predict it will never happen…”
“Some experts argue that human intelligence is more multifaceted than what the current definition of AGI describes.” (That AGI is not possible.)
“Most agree that AGI will arrive before the end of the 21st century.”
“Some researchers who’ve studied the emergence of machine intelligence think that the singularity could occur within decades.”
Current surveys of AI researchers are predicting AGI around 2040"
“Entrepreneurs are even more bullish, predicting it around ~2030”
“The CEO of Anthropic, who thinks we’re right on the threshold—give it about 12 more months or so.”