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Black Holes and the Intelligence Explosion | Sequoia Capital

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Extreme scenarios of AI focus on what is logically possible rather than what is physically possible. What does physics have to say about AI risk? For better or for worse, physicists will try to understand things that are not obviously physics, with physics. As a physicist-turned-AI-founder-and-researcher, I liked to imagine black holes as computers. (In some sense, they’re the largest and maybe the fastest kind.) In this essay, we consider whether some very special computers will become black holes before they become gods. Artificial intelligence has been a part of speculative fiction long before there was a specific genre called science fiction. AI has also been a part of computer science (though not exclusively so) for (almost) as long as there have been computers. In 1956, the Dartmouth Workshop coined the name “artificial intelligence” for the study of machines that think like humans, and set out to solve the task in a single summer.1 That didn’t really work out as planned. One pe

Black Holes and the Intelligence Explosion Extreme scenarios of AI focus on what is logically possible rather than what is physically possible. What does physics have to say about AI risk? By Dan Roberts Published December 7, 2023 For better or for worse, physicists will try to understand things that are not obviously physics, with physics. As a physicist-turned-AI-founder-and-researcher , I liked to imagine black holes as computers. (In some sense, they’re the largest and maybe the fastest kind.) In this essay, we consider whether some very special computers will become black holes before the

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