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Putting aside questions of what is and isn’t artificial, I think with the usual definitions “Is Microsoft a superintelligence” and “Can Microsoft build a superi
by QuadmasterXLII 1y ago
Putting aside questions of what is and isn’t artificial, I think with the usual definitions “Is Microsoft a superintelligence” and “Can Microsoft build a superintelligence” are the same question.
- drdaeman 1y agoSorry, I don’t get it. Why is it a requirement for a superintelligence (whatever it may be) to be able to create another superintelligence (I assume, of comparable “super-ness”)?
- QuadmasterXLII 1y agosufficient: if entity A can build B who solves task C, then A can solve C by building B necessary: if superintelligences are much smarter than humans and humans can build superintelligences, then superintelligences can build superintelligences If humans categorically can’t build superintelligences, then its not that consequential for our definition of superintelligence to be wrong
- falcor84 1y agoI would disagree. For almost any particular task that I as an individual could embark on, if MS were to focus all their efforts (or even just a few percent) to outcompete me, they most likely would. But that would be because MS includes capable humans who are able to coordinate together. "Building a superintelligence" on the other hand is about whether they can create something that would outcompete me at a task without having to dedicate humans to it.