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[–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The "I was offered money" thing is the least of this video.

It's mainly a pretty through, hard-nosed analysis around the real risks of runaway AI self-improvement anchored on what has actually happened so far and beyond that if a super AI was actually thus achieved, the risks of actual Human Extinction being the results, though it's mainly about the former.

Several papers are quoted and everything is look at through the lens of Logic and the Scientific Method rather than alarmism or simple dismissal.

The metaphor at the very end around "Don't Look Up" around what scientists see in the telescope doesn't actually work in terms of Physics, but that's just a personal peeve.

PS: Also this is not the Social and Financial analysis on the timing of this sudden alarm and the motivations of the various actors in the current Financial context around AI that most of us are doing here, it's purely looking at the research and drawing conclusions on what the status of things is right now and then contrasting that with the assured statements with actual timings on the risks of runaway self-improving AI from people who, frankly, should've known better than to say such things.

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