What I wished for in college.
I wished that #superintelligence, either artificial or genetically engineered, would crack faster than light travel.
I regarded that as the yardstick to measure success or failure.
In those days I was a lot more optimistic than I am now. It seems like a harder project than I originally thought.
And truth be told, in the 5 decades that have passed, AI and GE have disappointed me.
Maybe I expected too much.
At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race - Silicon Valley's AI talent war just reached a compensation m... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/at-250-million-top-ai-salaries-dwarf-those-of-the-manhattan-project-and-the-space-race/ #artificialgeneralintelligence #fairchildsemiconductor #superintelligence #talentacquisition #aiinfrastructure #manhattanproject #machinelearning #markzuckerberg #aidevelopment #siliconvalley #compensation #biz&it
Zuckerberg says Meta's AI systems are self-improving and superintelligence is "now in sight" 
His vision: "personal superintelligence" via smart glasses that know you deeply (because Meta definitely has a great track record with personal data, right?)
Will this be the breakthrough or just another metaverse moment? 
Zuckerberg pledges hundreds of billions for AI superintelligence data centers. So those targeted ads for cat videos are now funding our future digital overlords?
Meta's building a 1-gigawatt supercluster while investors wonder about payoffs. Nothing says "we've learned from our mistakes" like creating something smarter than us! 
"As I say in the book, Andreessen’s manifesto runs almost entirely on vibes, not logic. I think someone may have told him about the futurist manifesto at some point, and he just sort of liked the general vibe, which is why he paraphrases a part of it. Maybe he learned something about Marinetti and forgot it. Maybe he didn’t care.
I really believe that when you get as rich as some of these guys are, you can just do things that seem like thinking and no one is really going to correct you or tell you things you don’t want to hear. For many of these billionaires, the vibes of fascism, authoritarianism, and colonialism are attractive because they’re fundamentally about creating a fantasy of control."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/13/1118198/agi-ai-superintelligence-billionaires/
#AI #AGI #SuperIntelligence #Billionaires #SiliconValley #EffectiveAltruism #Rationalism #LongTermism #Extropianism #Accelerationism #Futurism #Singularitarianism #Transhumanism
"Mark Zuckerberg notified Meta staff today to introduce them to the new superintelligence team. The memo, which WIRED obtained, lists names and bios for the recently hired employees, many of whom came from rival AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Over the past few months, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on a recruiting frenzy to poach some of the most sought-after talent in AI. The social media giant has invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI and hired Alexandr Wang, its CEO, to run Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. News of the memo was first reported by Bloomberg.
“We’re going to call our overall organization Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). This includes all of our foundations, product, and FAIR teams, as well as a new lab focused on developing the next generation of our models,” Zuckerberg wrote in the memo on Monday. Meta declined to comment."
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-welcomes-superintelligence-team/
“Even by #SiliconValley’s historically rarefied standards, #BigAI is spending stratospheric amounts on talent this year. #Meta (Facebook) has invested $15bn in #ScaleAI, a #data labelling start-up that claims just 900 #employees.
Scale’s 28-year-old chief executive, #AlexanderWang, will take up a job at a new Meta lab devoted to creating #AI “#superintelligence”. His cash and equity in the deal is reported to be worth some $5bn, making him one of the most expensive so-called “#AcquiHires” on record.”
#AGI <https://www.ft.com/content/9e9fde8e-37bd-477d-8ebc-6d0a8b70f246> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/pwK9X>
What are some good #AI accounts to follow? Especially #watchdog monitoring #AGI and #Superintelligence development? #AI2027
question: Of all the tech broligarchs, which one would you LEAST trust to not wipe out humanity? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/meta-new-ai-lab-superintelligence.html #meta #ai #Superintelligence?
"We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception. But it is in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the future of AI which have a common tendency to treat it akin to a separate species, a highly autonomous, potentially superintelligent entity.
The statement “AI is normal technology” is three things: a description of current AI, a prediction about the foreseeable future of AI, and a prescription about how we should treat it. We view AI as a tool that we can and should remain in control of, and we argue that this goal does not require drastic policy interventions or technical breakthroughs. We do not think that viewing AI as a humanlike intelligence is currently accurate or useful for understanding its societal impacts, nor is it likely to be in our vision of the future.
The normal technology frame is about the relationship between technology and society. It rejects technological determinism, especially the notion of AI itself as an agent in determining its future. It is guided by lessons from past technological revolutions, such as the slow and uncertain nature of technology adoption and diffusion. It also emphasizes continuity between the past and the future trajectory of AI in terms of societal impact and the role of institutions in shaping this trajectory."
Why #BillGates believes #AI #superintelligence will require some #selfawareness
https://www.fastcompany.com/91150606/bill-gates-ai-superintelligence
Current systems display ‘genius’ but need strategies for thinking through problems, the #Microsoft cofounder says.
AI: too much information?
Yuval Noah Harari and Parmy Olson on how the race for #superintelligence may amplify the worst of human nature
The simple equation that more information automatically produces more open and prosperous societies is both delusional and ahistorical, according to #Harari.
The proliferation of information may be essential for the discovery of objective and scientific truth but it can also be exploited to impose societal order — or inflame disorder. What matters is the ways in which we curate and process that information, the job of information networks.
#ai #artificialintelligence
https://www.ft.com/content/5aa9b1e6-b69c-41b2-96e6-aec866eee0ab
I take that back... maybe it WOULD reduce emissions.
Human: What's the cause of climate change? OMG!
AI superintelligence: Humans are consuming too many fossil fuels and resources on this planet.
Human: HOW DO WE SOLVE THIS?
AI superintelligence: I'm building a robot army!
Human: Awesome! Why?
AI superintelligence: Alas, it's been nice to know you. We had to exterminate your species to save the planet!
@Lottie Have to confess i have not been keeping pace with chocolate hazelnut latte research. Remind me when they're predicted to reach #superintelligence ?
@argv_minus_one @tero I suggest reading Nick Bostrom's book on #Superintelligence for a measured assessment. #Intelligence is substrate independent. I can imagine that we'll hit a couple of road blocks before the intelligence explosion though.
"AI is about power and control. The technical details are interesting for some of us, but they’re a sideshow.
Superintelligence is a fantasy of power, not intelligence. Intelligence is just a technical detail."
https://betterwithout.ai/one-bit-future
I've already posted quotes from this book that make this point, but I think it's worth reiterating. Plus I just really like this quote.
Today's phrase regarding #AI: Think
"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."
-- Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, et. al.
[Emphasis mine.] Keep this in mind when you think about the fun things you can do with the technology -- then think whether you should.
#boostingIsSharing #CommentingIsCool
#chatgpt #machinelearning
languagemodels #intelligence #largelanguagemodels #llms #llm #chatgpt #gpt4 #superintelligence #AIrisks #AIsafety
If you’re worried about the threat to humanity that a superintelligent AI might present, here are arguments that the threat is unlikely. They cite examples ranging from Stephen Hawking’s cat to the fact that AI weenies are often wrong.
#AI #AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #SuperIntelligence #keynote #funny #RokosBasilisk #ideas
I think #superintelligence is going to be the flying car of the 21st century—and what we actually get will be more like what the 1960s actually got: the VW Beetle + turbulent social change.
Let me put on my futurologist hat:
- We will have exponential growth in all things smart. All kinds of items become social and have common sense.
- #Superintelligence will displace all sorts of management, design, engineering and science work by improving performance and removing bottlenecks. We used to be limited by the number of competent people in all kinds of things. Those limits will evaporate.
- AIs irrespective of domain will hunger for compute and knowledge, energy, factories and mobile #robots. This demand will be higher than anything we have seen.
- #Medicine will be solved, along with cancer, aging, and everything else. Is there money to be made? Who cares, it is almost a footnote in all the general effort.
- #Nanotechnology becomes scalable as suddenly we can scale up engineering to the level it requires. We start filling up all that "room in the bottom".
- High education and coaching for all through personal tutoring.
- Infosphere becomes first dominated by #AIs flooding information to humans, then flooding information to other AIs. Humans cannot make sense of it all without AIs in between summarizing.
- It takes longer for fields which require mobile robotic workers to become disrupted, but we will build robots. Lots and lots and lots of robots. There will be more robots than humans very soon.
The social and economical impacts aren't limited, and cannot be overstated.
Obviously we won't just magic new fusion power plants into existence in months. Those take decades to build, which can possibly be compressed by improved planning and around the clock automatic labor.
And initially these efforts will require a spectacular amount of human labor.
But it is magnificent.
Ambassador 
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