When asked about the idea of an AI smarter than a human, people tend to say “not for another hundred years”. And they’ve been saying the exact same thing for 50 years now. The same thing happened with airplanes, the discovery of the nervous system, computers, and nuclear bombs; and often within 5 years of the discovery. And the last three years of groundbreaking progress in AI has made clear that they’ve never been more wrong.
When asked about the idea of an AI smarter than a human, people tend to say “not for another hundred years”. And they’ve been saying the exact same thing for 50 years now. The same thing happened with airplanes, the discovery of the nervous system, computers, and nuclear bombs; and often within 5 years of the discovery. And the last three years of groundbreaking progress in AI has made clear that they’ve never been more wrong.