Ask A Genius 1294: AI, Scaling Laws, and Political Chaos

Rick Rosner: So, AI—when you ask it appropriate questions—makes no bones about eventually supplanting human cognition. What passes for common sense now tells you the same thing: we have figured out how to create "thinky stuff."  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We've made our own natural predator. Rosner: And we know that "thinky stuff" in biological beings …

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Ask A Genius 1293: AI Cognition, Politics, and the Future of Science

Rick Rosner: So, ChatGPT-3 Mini-High—or is it O3-Mini-High? At what point in the future would you predict, with certainty, that AI cognition—the sheer volume of artificial cognition—will surpass human cognition? It was not a well-formed question. The question itself, combined with the statement, is essentially marketing. The terms are not clearly defined. So, I considered …

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