<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 8, 2024, 11:51 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I admit to being lazy on this topic and follow Ray Kurzweil. Until<br>
the LLM came out, Ray was expecting the Singularity to hit in the<br>
mid-2040s.<br>
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After the LLMs came out, Ray cut his estimate to 2030. Eliezer<br>
Yudkowsky has expressed that the human era is about over, perhaps 5<br>
years.<br>
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Ray and Eliezer may be wrong, but they have put far more effort into<br>
understanding the issue than I have.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Eliezer is wrong. Ray's new prediction is probably wrong. I don't have good enough data to predict beyond 2040 at this time.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I say this despite having designs for full self-replicating 3D printers that could extend into make-near-anything machines without needing to wait for further development of molecular nanotech, with obvious (most likely beneficial in practice, given the details) implications should a Singularity-grade seed AI get control, and a possible way to set up prototypes. (If anyone would be interested in helping do the work to bring these printers about, contact me offlist.)</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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