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"What 2026 looks like" by Daniel Kokotajlo

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) - The Future of AI

The age of the AI assistant is finally dawned. We now have a way to integrate the general understanding and knowledge of pre-trained transformers, with the agentiness of traditional game playing AI's. Bigger models are trained for longer on more games, becoming polymaths of sorts. For example, a custom AI avatar that can play some set of video games online with you, and also be your friend and chat with you. And conversations with her in quotes are interesting because she in quotes can talk intelligently about the game while she plays. I'm predicting that people will use feminine pronouns to describe AI's like this - even if they don't know it yet.

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