What is Superintelligence? How did this term evolve? Are we really nearing the end of the exponential curve?

What are Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and everyone else at the AI Summit and on Reddit talking about when they mention AGI, ASI, or some other scary-sounding term? Perhaps more importantly, if we accept the possibility that Superintelligence Is Near (or already here), what might it mean for us as human beings?

According to Angy, we may all get to sit around eating grapes like Greek gods, painting and such (or end up humming in the corner with nothing meaningful to do). According to Rose, we may be facing a total wipe-out (or finally get those pesky pandemic-level or incurable diseases solved, right before the paperclip scenario of ASI plays out and takes over the world).

Let the debate commence!!

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This is Our Lives With Bots, the show where we ask important, timely questions about what it means to live with our bot counterparts. From time to time, we also dive deep into what an AI future might look like for us. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we spiral, but we always go deep.

Rose and Angy are psychologists with degrees in psychology, artificial intelligence, and ethics. They have conducted research in human-AI interaction and created this podcast to make information about AI accessible to you. You can learn more about us at ⁠ourliveswithbots.com⁠.

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Here are those links we promised in the episode:

Dario - we are nearing the end of the exponential

Sam and “training a human” versus AI

Sam’s Ten Years blog post

Sam Altman at the Summit

Eric Schmidt interview

Humanity’s Last Exam