The Myth of a Superhuman AI
Ugh. This is a pretty bad article. And don&#x27;t get me wrong... I&#x27;m no &quot;AI Alarmist.&quot; But to me, this article is equally as useless as the various pronouncements it seems to be trying to refute. There&#x27;s a lot of verbiage here, but no cohesive, coherent argument to support the thesis that &quot;Superhuman AI is just a myth&quot; (which is to say, &quot;Superhuman AI is not possible&quot;).<p>The reality is, there are a lot of unknowns in this space, and to dismiss the possibility of an &quot;evil super-intelligence&quot; out-of-hand is, IMO, every bit as silly as buying into the &quot;OMG, AI is unleashing the demon&quot; fear-mongering. I just think it&#x27;s too early to know for sure the answers to some of these questions, like:<p>1. Is AGI possible at all (for whatever definition of &quot;AGI&quot; you want to use)?<p>2. If the answer to (1) is &quot;yes&quot;, then what about ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) - is that possible?<p>3. If (1) and (2) are both &quot;yes&quot;, then is it possible to create an ASI that will either be benevolent, or controllable, or both?<p>And so on... we just don&#x27;t know yet. And that in and of itself arguably suggests the exercise of a certain measure of caution.