<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">John, I largely agree with your assessment of the state of AIs.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">But I somewhat wonder if they are hitting the limits of knowledge? They know virtually everything humans know, but they simply cannot know beyond that. Any thoughts on where this will go?</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Keith<br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Best wishes,</div><br>Keith<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 4, 2026 at 12:22 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 4, 2026 at 9:35 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>
><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> I don’t see why not call it superintelligence.</i></font></blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Because it ain't - yet.</i></font><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>AI can draw better pictures than most people<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> compose and play better music than most people,<span class="gmail_default"> </span>write better poems<span class="gmail_default"> novels and songs than most people, and </span><span style="background-color:transparent">during <span class="gmail_default">just the </span>last month</span><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent"> AI has proven dozens of mathematical theorems that have stumped generations of human mathematicians for centuries, including one of the Millennium Prizes. And if that isn't good enough to be called superintelligent then all you need to do is wait another month. </span></b></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Right now at this very moment<span class="gmail_default"> </span>we are facing the sort of science fiction scenario that we've been talking about on this list for as long as I've been on it.<span class="gmail_default"></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default">John K Clark </span><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>
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