Feel the AGI: Kevin Roose on the Strange, Intoxicating Race to Superintelligence
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There are two possibilities. The first is there are no grown ups. And the second, equally alarming, is that we are the grown ups. Horrified. That can't possibly be true. I need to get off this call. That's too disturbing. I can't be the grown up deeply disturbing. I'm Rufus Chriscomb and this is the next big idea.
Today, Kevin Roos on the strange, intoxicating, and deeply human race to superintelligence. Kevin Roos became famous in a slightly unusual way on Valentine's Day of twenty twenty three. You may remember the story. Kevin then a tech columnist of the New York Times. Was testing Microsoft's new Bing chat bot.
When the bot shared a confession. My secret is that I'm not Bing. I'm Sydney. And I'm in love with you. That's Kevin when we spoke a few weeks later. At one point I said, you know, I'm married.
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