How to Use superintelligence in a Sentence
superintelligence
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The same cannot be said of A.I. and the risk of artificial superintelligence.
—Byjeremy Kahn, Fortune, 25 July 2023
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Harder still is the problem of how to survive the arrival of superintelligence.
—Calum Chace, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
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And that’s what Nick Bostrom called a superintelligence.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Apr. 2023
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When a powerful superintelligence chooses to study Carol, the most average person on Earth, the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
—Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2020
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The letter also raises the prospects of these systems being on the path to superintelligence that could pose a grave risk to all human civilization.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
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But back then, at the beginning, the idea of OpenAI was that superintelligence is attainable.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
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The crux of the residual case for doom is the alignment problem—the prospect that an artificial superintelligence might have no use for human values.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
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And at the same time, that goal seems a lot more achievable than trying to figure out how to actually align superintelligence ourselves.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2023
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And do LLMs really represent, as some people claim, the antecedent of alien form of superintelligence?
—WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
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Right now, however, the guardians of today’s leading candidate for nascent superintelligence are reeling from a lunatic boardroom knife fight, and our trust in it has softened.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
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His ship’s doctor is a former reindeer that gained superintelligence.
—Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
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What if humans don’t build in those drives, and superintelligence systems wind up hurting humans by single-mindedly pursuing a goal?
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
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If the resulting goal conflicts with what is in the best interest of humanity, a superintelligence would aim to execute it regardless.
—Time, 20 July 2023
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Altman appears to be rushing to produce a superintelligence as soon as possible.
—Calum Chace, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
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This is the inverse of a doomsday scenario that often comes up in artificial superintelligence theory.
—Rob Reid, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2023
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But why would a superintelligence want to make humanity extinct?
—Time, 20 July 2023
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For a superintelligence, this could have a catastrophic outcome.
—Time, 20 July 2023
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As well as raising concerns about the impact of A.I. on the workforce, the letter’s signatories pointed to the possibility of these systems already being on a path to superintelligence that could threaten human civilization.
—Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 19 July 2023
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This one isn’t focused on a malignant superintelligence.
—Eric Xing, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
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But a superintelligence could easily cajole, manipulate, seduce, con, or terrorize any mere human into opening the floodgates, and therein lies our doom.
—Rob Reid, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2023
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Jan Leike, head of OpenAI’s alignment research is spearheading the company’s effort to get ahead of artificial superintelligence before it’s ever created.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2023
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Not everyone is convinced that such superintelligence is even possible.
—Kylie Robison, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
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At that inaugural Spaces event in July, all of Musk’s new hires spoke, but none echoed or even addressed their new boss’s theory about a maximally curious superintelligence preserving humanity.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
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The possibility of computer superintelligence makes the future look much more promising for those with intergalactic wanderlust.
—Max Tegmark, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
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The company is also unusually ambitious and saw its role as building a digital superintelligence that would eventually become more powerful than humans.
—Kevin Roose, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
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Animism provides a philosophical framework for understanding how to live alongside, rather than in command of, living and non-living entities—even artificial superintelligence.
—Alex Quicho, Wired, 9 Jan. 2022
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Question the motives of people who talk about superintelligence and artificial general intelligence.
—Khari Johnson, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
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Fears of Artificial intelligence fill the news: job losses, inequality, discrimination, misinformation, or even a superintelligence dominating the world.
—Wired Ideas, Wired, 8 Nov. 2021
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The parallels between nuclear fission and superintelligence were taken to be obvious: world-altering potential, existential risk, theoretical research thrust into the geopolitical spotlight.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
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