It doesn’t move much probability mass to the very near term (i.e. 1 year or less), because both this and AlphaStar aren’t really doing consequentialist reasoning, they’re just able to get a surprising performance with simpler tricks (the very Markovian nature of human writing, a good position evaluation function) given a whole lot of compute.
However, it does shift my probabilities forward in time, in the sense that one new weird trick to do deductive or consequentialist reasoning, plus a lot of compute, might get you there really quickly.
It doesn’t move much probability mass to the very near term (i.e. 1 year or less), because both this and AlphaStar aren’t really doing consequentialist reasoning, they’re just able to get a surprising performance with simpler tricks (the very Markovian nature of human writing, a good position evaluation function) given a whole lot of compute.
However, it does shift my probabilities forward in time, in the sense that one new weird trick to do deductive or consequentialist reasoning, plus a lot of compute, might get you there really quickly.