That’s the case now, but note the “work on it for a decade and a half”. 15 years ago, MIRI was working on building the godlike AI directly and was one of the only actors doing so, as there wasn’t a trillion dollar technocapitalist machine pouring money into machine learning yet.
That’s the case now, but note the “work on it for a decade and a half”. 15 years ago, MIRI was working on building the godlike AI directly and was one of the only actors doing so, as there wasn’t a trillion dollar technocapitalist machine pouring money into machine learning yet.