Superintelligence // in a few thousand days
Lol, why wait so long, any calculator can super-intelligently add, multiply, etc. numbers // the question: what super intelligence is?
Electronic devices are not intelligent, it’s just algorithms, nothing more. Modern generative ML-models are just data wrappers (neural networks are just approximators). Approximation can be complex and multidimensional, but it’s not an intelligence.
This may turn out to be the most consequential fact about all of history so far. It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there.
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In this conversation with a16z general partner David George, Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang discusses the three pillars of AI — models, compute, and data — and how creating abundant data is core to the evolution of gen AI. With Scale’s work across enterprise, automotive, and the public sector, Alex is also building the critical infrastructure that will allow any organization to use their proprietary data to build bespoke gen AI applications. In addition to talking about frontier data, Alex also shares his learnings from the growth of Scale, his approach to leadership, and what he thinks growth-stage founder/CEOs tend to get wrong about hiring.