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they have the potential to take over the control systems of the explosive stuff. including the decision making processes of humans themselves.

to quote none other than sama, oct 2023: "i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes" https://twitter.com/sama/status/1716972815960961174

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take any narrow capability and 'superhuman <narrow capability>' will almost certainly be possible before 'superhuman general intelligence'.

The biggest, best transformer-based LLM you could imagine, that we haven't even made yet, will still fail the basic test "what is the weather tomorrow" since a LLM has no knowledge outside it's training set.

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