Lets game this out.

Bob and Alice, and everyone else on earth, download a local AI harness, that gets smarter over time, at whatever they ask it about.

Bob and Alice stay home, drill their own well, grow their own food, sew their own clothes, repair their own vehicles, etc etc etc.

Bob loses his job as an automotive mechanic, and Alice loses her job at the retail clothing outlet, because everyone is ordering parts and clothes/sewing supplies off Amazon.

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It's looking like AI is setting us all free, and if we decide to use our spare time to kill each other or help each other is what this boils down to.

> They will grow exponentially smarter... First twice as smart as a person, then 4x, then 16x, and so on.

How in gods name are they not already like a million times as smart as a person? By what metric are you assuming the growth will be limited to exponential? It should be at least Factorial growth.

Friend, take a break from the dysfunctional media ecosystem telling you these lies to install fear

The ai "leaders" have psychosis and are in an echo chamber, they are not reading the output, these claims they make don't hold up under scrutiny, eg some of those math papers are already being retracted

Here's the linux kernel team sharing their side of the Mythos "hacks" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q

Why is it that the Chinese researchers are not crying wolf? What financial incentives might US Big Ai researchers have to cry wolf? How many times have they cried wolf now?

(recall GPT-2 was too dangerous to release)

We still have at least a year, so chill.

Oh come on...actions have consequences. Intelligence started imploding when people took up scrolling and swiping for 14 hours a day. It’s been such a carnage that I’m starting to feel like a genius. If our future is doomed, we can’t give AI all the credit.

Bring it on (they will eventually, let's get it out of the way now)