Right. And if this scenario happened, there would be a good chance that it would not be able to foom, or at least not within a week. Eliezer’s opinion seems to be that this scenario is extremely unlikely, in other words that the first AI will already be far more intelligent than the human race, and that even if it is running on an immense amount of hardware, it will have no need to acquire more hardware, because it will be able to construct nanotechnology capable of controlling the planet through actions originating on the internet as you suggest. And as you can see, he is very confident that all this will happen within a very short period of time.
Ah. So an AI could, e.g. be only slightly superhuman and require immense quantities of hardware to generate that performance in realtime.
Right. And if this scenario happened, there would be a good chance that it would not be able to foom, or at least not within a week. Eliezer’s opinion seems to be that this scenario is extremely unlikely, in other words that the first AI will already be far more intelligent than the human race, and that even if it is running on an immense amount of hardware, it will have no need to acquire more hardware, because it will be able to construct nanotechnology capable of controlling the planet through actions originating on the internet as you suggest. And as you can see, he is very confident that all this will happen within a very short period of time.