I know it's crazy, notes from the AI Advantage Summit
Dean asked us to share a breakthrough moment: A breakout moment for me, the first one, happened during Zack Kassā great talk. it happened when I momentarily misunderstood one of his slides. Zack had explained that we humans have been improving our collective intellect quicker than other species of animals. Unfortunately, not in pace with AIās improved intelligence. Zack explained the history of intellectual development leading to the creation of the Internet. And that initially the internet was to be a library of scholarly text from all of the top schools. Then someone figured out how to make money from it through advertising. And now users cannot escape the advertisers. One of Zackās first slide on this topic read: āWe are building machines that possess intellectual equivalence and superiority.ā Then the slide that came after read only: āThe rate of Improvement is acceleratingā That was the moment: I thought he was talking about the continual improvement that we humans were experiencing and our adapting.Ā I actually got a shiver, and my `mind popped' with the sudden realization that Zack was still talking about the internet, and not `we the peopleā. I wondered if, at the end of the world, would the smart machines take over, as they do in science fiction? And would we humans, become slaves to our creation? No longer would this creation of ours be called and considered as `artificial intelligenceā, but now would be understood as (AI) `advanced intelligenceā. Zack was, in my mind, suggesting that our only hope of containing the potential dominance by AI was for humans to learn more, and faster. We, this audience at this summit, are all here seeking to be educated. And we are being educated. Our ārate of improvementā is also accelerating. But we, believers in this important continued education, are the few. The majority of humankind carelessly are being intellectually eclipsed by technology's rapid pace. Technological advancement was/is already displacing more and more workers.