Superintelligence

This is the realm of the AGI
It won’t go after your jobs,
it will go after the molecules…

Biological systems at the molecular level are impossibly advanced nanotech that we are hopelessly far from engineering ourselves from scratch. pic.twitter.com/mGKZXvm78E

— Andrew Côté (@Andercot) October 7, 2024

There is a way of seeing the world
where you look at a blade of grass and see “a solar-powered self-replicating factory”.
I’ve never figured out how to explain how hard a Super-Intelligence can hit us,
to someone who does not see from that angle. It’s not just the one fact.

A self-replicating solar-powered thing that did not rely on humans would be a miracle. Everything is possible. Imagining it does not imply the probability is > 1e-100.

— Eric Falkenstein (@egfalken) June 15, 2024

I see nature
I see insane nanotech https://t.co/qF2MJBVPqN pic.twitter.com/0LM99Pwy5d

— lethalintelligence.ai (@lethal_ai) October 5, 2024

Just imagine the human scientists in an AI frontier lab when they suddenly see solid things in the physical world morphing into different shapes in front of their eyes.
The 3 below were having a meeting in the headquarters of Meta

Human scientists suddenly seeing crazy Nanotech science playing out 🧑‍🔬👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

suddenly out of the blue
– Lecun is morphing into a big donut 🍩
– and Zuck's molecules rearrange into what seems to be a malnutritioned carrot 🥕 https://t.co/xEvxenA23q

— lethalintelligence.ai (@lethal_ai) October 7, 2024

AI just reconstructed a Pink Floyd song from brain activity. And it sounds shockingly clear. Think about the potential of this tech for people struggling with communication. We’re living in the future.

Source: UC Berkeley News https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/08/15/releases-20230811/

AI just reconstructed a Pink Floyd song from brain activity.

And it sounds shockingly clear.

Think about the potential of this tech for people struggling with communication.

We're living in the future. pic.twitter.com/EakIp5D1Jk

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) August 16, 2023

Here’s us from the perspective of a system just 50x faster than us

Reminder:

Without internationally enforced speed limits on AI, I think humanity is very unlikely to survive. From AI’s perspective in 2-3 years from now, we look more like plants than animals: big slow chunks of biofuel showing weak signs of intelligence when undisturbed for ages (seconds) on end.

http://vimeo.com/83664407

Over the next decade, expect AI with more like a 100x – 1,000,000x speed advantage over us. Why?

Neurons fire at ~1000 times/second at most, while computer chips “fire” a million times faster than that. Current AI has not been distilled to run maximally efficiently, but will almost certainly run 100x faster than humans, and 1,000,000x is conceivable given the hardware speed difference.

“But plants are still around!”, you say. “Maybe AI will keep humans around as nature reserves.” Possible, but unlikely if it’s not speed-limited. Remember, ~99.9% of all species on Earth have gone extinct:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction

When people demand “extraordinary” evidence for the “extraordinary” claim that humanity will perish when faced with intelligent systems 100 to 1,000,000 times faster than us, remember that the “ordinary” thing to happen to a species is extinction, not survival. As many now argue, “I can’t predict how a world-class chess AI will checkmate you, but I can predict who will win the game.”

And for all the conversations we’re having about “alignment” and how AI will serve humans as peers or assistants, please try to remember the video above. To future AI, we’re not chimps; we’re plants.