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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by fsflover on Friday June 02, 2023 @03:36AM (#36162227)
>> Do you think it's physically impossible for any intelligence to be superhuman, even a natural intelligence?

> No, I think a godlike being...

Superhuman intelligence is a reality in many fields already: chess, Go, self-driving cars at certain conditions, calculations and many more. This is not necessary to have it for everything at all.

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by tome on Friday June 02, 2023 @06:01AM (#36163213)
I'm not really sure what you're saying, but sure, we've had superhuman intelligences for at least 200 years, when Babbage invented the difference engine. If you're willing to count abaci we've had superhuman intelligences for thousands of years. You might object that the intelligence of an abacus is manifest not just in a device but in an amalgam of human and device. But isn't the same true for all computation that humanity has so far harnessed?
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