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Emerging Situation: Anthropic's Global Pause, Recursive Self-Improvement Arrives, and AI Personhood Arrives | EP #263
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Alex Wissner-Gross: Soft vs. Hard Takeoff and the Singularity Arriving With a Whimper
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Alex argues recursive self-improvement is already happening at OpenAI and Google too, but will feel smooth locally — like a soft takeoff — even as it looks like a step function in retrospect. [1] — Alexander Wissner-Gross "The singularity won't arrive with a bang. Locally it's smooth and differentiable — but zoom out and it's a step function. We already drove …" 05:00
The singularity won't arrive with a bang. Locally it's smooth and differentiable — but zoom out and it's a step function. We already drove through the Turing test without noticing. Recursive self-improvement is next, and we'll probably miss that crossing too.
