Why are people building AI systems? – BlueDot Impact

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Almost everyone appreciates AI could bring significant rewards to its creators. However, the average person seems to have wildly inaccurate intuitions about the scale of the reward at stake, particularly for general transformative AI systems. Instead, you should have a grounded sense of ‘woah, this could be big’. We think this is valuable for getting […]

AI could bring significant rewards to its creators. However, the average person seems to have wildly inaccurate intuitions about the scale of these rewards. By exploring conservative estimates of the potential rewards AI companies could expect to see from the automation of human labour, this article tries to convey a grounded sense of ‘woah, this could be big’. The transformative effect on jobs is not necessarily the most significant effect we are likely to see from advancing AI. However, zooming in on a single area can still help us appreciate the huge impacts transformative AI might…

Why are people building AI systems? – BlueDot Impact

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