“The key implication for our purposes is that an AI might make a huge jump in intelligence after reaching some threshold of criticality.
In 1933, Lord Ernest Rutherford said that no one could ever expect to derive power from splitting the atom: «Anyone who looked for a source of power in the transformation of atoms was talking moonshine.» At that time laborious hours and weeks were required to fission a handful of nuclei.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI as a pos neg factor, around 2006
“The key implication for our purposes is that an AI might make a huge jump in intelligence after reaching some threshold of criticality.
In 1933, Lord Ernest Rutherford said that no one could ever expect to derive power from splitting the atom: «Anyone who looked for a source of power in the transformation of atoms was talking moonshine.» At that time laborious hours and weeks were required to fission a handful of nuclei.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI as a pos neg factor, around 2006