Is A Technological Singularity Inevitable? (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Accelerating Machine Intelligence Singularity
We have spent centuries trying to make smaller or better people. And our progress is hardly one that could be thought of as creating a smaller person who turned around and made an even smaller one the next day. I would also note that very few animals seem fixated on making themselves smaller, or their descendants smaller. We should not be suming some newly awakened ai is just obsessed with getting smarter. None the less, i personally cannot recall hearing about any super intelligent minds being created recently. So we might want to ask why we think them succeeding at some massive team effort to create that forced superhuman intellect would imply it was going to do better than them.
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