[ExI] Telescoping Tomorrow: Nick Bostrom on AI’s Radical Potential

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Bostrom’s insights challenge us to consider not just what AI can do
today, but what it might be capable of tomorrow, and how we can best
prepare for a future that may arrive sooner than we think.

September 2, 2024   Ari Haruni

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Quotes:
Nick Bostrom says progress in AI is likely to lead to radical
superintelligence and a "telescoping of the future" where the world
will change enormously in the space of a year or a few years.

However, Bostrom urges us to extend our vision beyond these immediate
commercial applications. He posits that the development of AI will not
halt at improved language models or more efficient integration into
existing products. Instead, he foresees a path leading to what he
terms “radical forms of superintelligence” – AI systems that surpass
human cognitive abilities across all domains.

This concept of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not new, but
Bostrom’s perspective on its implications is particularly striking. He
envisions a future where AGI renders all human intellectual labor
obsolete, a prospect that is both awe-inspiring and potentially
unsettling.
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This is the optimistic version of revolutionary changes within the
next few years.
But revolutions have downsides as well.
Hopefully we will solve all the problems.

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