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by ilaksh 1236 days ago
Interesting question but seems a bit short-sighted to be looking for some "incidents" when we can easily speculate that un-augmented humans may become essentially irrelevant within a generation. It is almost inevitable that eventually some group will start building fully autonomous AIs. And already some language models meet or surpass human abilities in some fairly general tests. Many Singularitarians will throw out numbers like 1 million or 1 billion times the intelligence of a human, which seems very fantastical and unfounded to me. But two times or even perhaps five times the intelligence of a human, and with some types of cognition that humans just can't do, seems totally plausible.