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>All AI introduces is a much less constrained upper bound.

Can you please explain?

Human intelligence is constrained by the genetic diversity within the human gene pool. AI has no such constraints and in theory is only constrained by the laws of physics.

This assumes, however, that "intelligence" is something that scales reasonably well. Does it scale linearly with the number of transistors (or whatever replaces them)? Or as the log of it? Or worse than that?

No it doesn't. We really have no idea of the possible upper limit of AI intelligence other than physics, while with humans we actually have data on the upper limit. It could be that the maximum intelligence possible is limited by something other than physics, but at this stage we don't know.

On this topic speculating on how greater intelligence will think and act is very hard. Even understanding how people at the very top level of human intelligence think is beyond most of us.

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