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AMA | February 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There a Ceiling for AI Research?

In our universe, there's no empty space that we're surrounded by and the singularity is in the past. So there's literally no reason to actually, if you understand what's going on, say that our universe is like a black hole. I don't know whether the current wave of AI research is going to end up being a defining moment for the history of the species. That is my not super duper expert opinion. What is actually doable might end up being very, very different than what we set out originally to do. It doesn't mean it's not interesting or important.

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