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Thoughts on Leopold Aschenbrenner's short AGI timeline

Can we solve the problem of not having enough internet data to train LLMs, in the timeline proposed?

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Dave Friedman
Jun 06, 2024
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My basic mental model for the possible future of AI is something along the lines of one of the following:

  • This is it. GPT4o and its peers are as good as we’ll get.

  • Progress towards AGI over the course of decades and beyond that, and an eventual artificial superintelligence (ASI) some decades or centuries hence.

  • Rapid progress towards AGI and ASI soon there…

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