Authored by Jacob Burg and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times,
Imagine a world where intelligent machines easily outmatch humans across a broad spectrum of tasks, deconstructing complex concepts and mathematical equations in seconds, and bringing to life creative products and ideas that once seemed inseparable from the human mind.
In this world, your artificial intelligence (AI) model is not merely a chatbot editing your emails and completing tasks like a digital assistant; it's mapping out problems and making decisions, probing deep intellectual paradoxes, and doing all of this autonomously, without requiring human input.
This is one way "superintelligence," or artificial general intelligence, could manifest if researchers succeed in scaling large language models to this threshold.
Researchers continue to debate whether large language models can reach superintelligence, but others have even bigger concerns.
"I think that in effect, whoever controls this army of superintelligences would be able to control the country, one way or another," Daniel Kokotajlo, former OpenAI researcher and executive director of the AI Futures Project, told Epoch TV in an interview that aired on Sept. 24.
And Kokotajlo warns
