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Re:OpenAI Insider Estimates 70% Chance AI Will Destroy or Tr... by AnimalMuppet on Monday June 10, 2024 @11:39AM (#40634734)
They are just spitballing. Nobody has any actual idea yet whether AGI is even possible. Nobody has a statistically valid sample of what AGIs have done to civilizations. Nobody actually knows anything. They're just spitballing.
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Re:OpenAI Insider Estimates 70% Chance AI Will Destroy or Tr... by DebtDeflation on Monday June 10, 2024 @12:45PM (#40635451)
That was my point. 70% is a made up number. If you're going to just make up a number, may as well throw some false precision in as well, lest you appear lazy.
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