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>>davidb+(OP)
Nothing makes me think of Altman as a grifter more than his trying to spook uneducated lawmakers with sci-fi notions like "superintelligence" for which there are no plausible mechanisms or natural analogues, and for which the solution is to lobby government build a moat around his business and limit his competitors. We do not even have a consensus around a working definition of "intelligence", let alone any evidence that it is a linear or unbounded phenomenon, and even if it were, there is no evidence ChatGPT is a route to even human-level intelligence. The sum total of research into this "field" is a series of long chains of philosophical leaps that rapidly escape any connection to reality, which is no basis for a wide-ranging government intervention.

>>lsy+c9
Superintelligence is not a "sci-fi" notion. That would be like saying, a few years before the Wright brothers, that human powered flight is a sci-fi notion. The last ten years have seen massive progress in AI, and another 10 years of such massive progress could very plausibly lead do superhuman intelligence. It's not sci-fi at all.

>>cubefo+JB
> That would be like saying, a few years before the Wright brothers, that human powered flight is a sci-fi notion.

That would have been exactly correct at the time. The difference between real and sci-fi is implemented technology.

There are certainly classes of sci-fi technology that we know are likely impossible fantasies, but that doesn't mean the rest of it is real.