AI: 4 levels of impact [micropost]

  1. LLM is as big as the smartphone/​electricity: it will be the building block on which a lot of tech gets built.

  2. AI is the new industrial revolution/​agricultural revolution: it will allow for a whole new level of automation of the economy.

  3. AGI is the new macro-optimisation process since the economy/​memes/​sexual reproduction/​DNA: it will change the evolutionary process itself.

  4. ASI is the new Big Bang: first matter expanded in the universe, second intelligence will.

(Pedantic note: “LLM is AI”, “space itself expands, not matter”, “AGI is an ill-defined concept”, etc. Ok, but the core idea is the general framework /​ spectrum for thinking about the impact of AI 😊)