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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

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How Big Is AI?

As you move down to a much smaller scale, you will see individual innovations having a bigger effect. No one weapon in the last 70 years has like made a big difference in terms of the overall prominence of the US military. So when we get to AI, now, now I can frame the question, how big is AI? Basically, if so, one way of thinking about AI is it's just all mental tasks. And then you ask, what fraction of tasks are mental tasks? And then I go a lot. If I think of AI as like half of everything, then I think, well, it's got to be composed of lots of parts where any one innovation is only a

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