I’m really not sure a human level AI would be at all that much of an advantage when it comes to developing technology at an accelerated rate, even at dramatically accelerated subjective time scales. Even in relatively narrow fields like nanotechnology, there are thousands of people investing a lot of time into working on it, not to mention all the people working in disparate disciplines which feed intellectual capital into the field. That’s likely tens or hundreds of thousands of man hours a day invested, plus access to the materials needed to run experiments. Keep in mind that your AI is limited by the speed at which experiments can be run in the real world, and must devote a significant portion of its time to unrelated intellectual labor in order to fund both its own operation, and real-world experiments. In order to outpace human research under these constraints, the AI would need to be operating on timescales so fast that they may be physically unrealistic.
In short, I would say it’s likely that your AI would perform extremely well in intelligence tests against any single human, provided it were willing to do the grunt work of really thinking about every decision. I just don’t think it could outpace humanity.
I’m really not sure a human level AI would be at all that much of an advantage when it comes to developing technology at an accelerated rate, even at dramatically accelerated subjective time scales. Even in relatively narrow fields like nanotechnology, there are thousands of people investing a lot of time into working on it, not to mention all the people working in disparate disciplines which feed intellectual capital into the field. That’s likely tens or hundreds of thousands of man hours a day invested, plus access to the materials needed to run experiments. Keep in mind that your AI is limited by the speed at which experiments can be run in the real world, and must devote a significant portion of its time to unrelated intellectual labor in order to fund both its own operation, and real-world experiments. In order to outpace human research under these constraints, the AI would need to be operating on timescales so fast that they may be physically unrealistic.
In short, I would say it’s likely that your AI would perform extremely well in intelligence tests against any single human, provided it were willing to do the grunt work of really thinking about every decision. I just don’t think it could outpace humanity.