The Gentle Singularity

[John Clark]

Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, has just put an article by him online, it starts like this: 

"We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots are not yet walking the streets, nor are most of us talking to AI all day. People still die of disease, we still can’t easily go to space, and there is a lot about the universe we don’t understand.

And yet, we have recently built systems that are smarter than people in many ways, and are able to significantly amplify the output of people using them. The least-likely part of the work is behind us; the scientific insights that got us to systems like GPT-4 and o3 were hard-won, but will take us very far."

The Gentle Singularity

John K Clark

 

[Brent Meeker]

On 6/11/2025 1:27 PM, John Clark wrote:

The Gentle Singularity   So Far.

Brent