[ExI] How Close is the AI Intelligence Explosion?

[Brent Allsop]

Thanks all for all these enlightening and inspiring responses.


On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM efc--- via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Mar 2025, Brent Allsop via extropy-chat wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, exactly.  limited, irrational and stupid human behavior is the
> problem, not ever more intelligent AIs.
> >
> > So maybe AI:s will be a blessing then? I find it very depressing that the
> > only thing that is discussed seems to be how negative it would be, that
> > the AI are inherently evil and want to destroy all humans.
>
> So far the AIs have failed the Turing Test by being nicer than humans.
>
> > Maybe super intelligent AI:s will take care of humans, and not see the
> > point in our battles and wars, and help us to stop them once and for all?
> >
> That should not be hard.  We have been selected for war when the
> alternative is worse.  But if the future looks good, we have been
> selected for peace as well.  Paper on this topic here:
>
> https://arelzedblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/01/berserk/
>
> Keith
> >
> > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > >       On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM BillK via extropy-chat
> > >       <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > >       >
> > >       > This article from the Future of Life Institute suggests that
> the
> > >       > intelligence explosion could be only a few years away.
> > >       > BillK
> > >
> > >       snip
> > >
> > >       > . We should be acting on the assumption that
> > >       > very powerful AI could emerge soon.
> > >
> > >       Acting how?
> > >
> > >       I have followed this subject for 20 years and have never seen a
> > >       workable proposal.
> > >
> > >       My unworkable proposal is to modify human nature because AIs are
> not
> > >       the problem, humans are.
> > >
> > >       Keith
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