Ah yes, an AGI "superintelligence" piece. People who read too much scifi worry a lot about these apocalyptic AGI because they have some idea that an abstract "s

Ah yes, an AGI "superintelligence" piece. People who read too much scifi worry a lot about these apocalyptic AGI because they have some idea that an abstract "superintelligence" can go on self-improving exponentially using nothing but its own smartness, leaving people behind in the dust. Curiously absent from this picture is the part where the AI is a physical thing installed somewhere. I'm sure the newborn superintelligence will immediately set about beating chip-makers like TSMC at their own game by merely imagining a better source of extreme ultraviolet for lithographic processes than the current laser-against-molten-tin solutions, to say nothing of the cleanroom manufacturing processes, the ultra-pure silicon, the various acids and even just supplies of water [1]. Meh. Worry first about firms and governments who operate computers who have good enough computers that they can spin up regular-level intelligences on demand. That's going to change more games a lot sooner and a lot faster. [1] https://fortune.com/2021/06/12/chip-shortage-taiwan-drought-tsmc-water-usage/ https://fortune.com/2021/06/12/chip-shortage-taiwan-drought-...