Dangerville ...

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The notion of dangerville comes to mind with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman glibly talking about superintelligence given the fact his company needs money before anything of consequence can be accomplished.

In a post on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he believes OpenAI “know[s] how to build [artificial general intelligence]” as the company has traditionally understood it, and is beginning to turn its aim to “superintelligence.”

“We love our current products, but we are here for the glorious future,” Altman wrote in the post. “Superintelligent tools could massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation well beyond what we are capable of doing on our own, and in turn massively increase abundance and prosperity.”

Altman previously said that superintelligence could be “a few thousand days” away, and that its arrival would be “more intense than people think.”

AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is a nebulous term, but OpenAI has its own definition: “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.” OpenAI and Microsoft, the startup’s close collaborator and investor, also have a definition of AGI: AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits. When OpenAI achieves this, Microsoft will lose access to its technology, per an agreement between the two companies.

The cash nexus applies.