And now he says we’re going to call AI ‘superintelligence’. You can’t make it smarter than people just by calling it smarter than people.”

I actually laughed out loud. 😄

It’s so demoralising to perpetually witness apparently intelligent people be convinced that Algorithmic Iterators can in any way be mistaken as a form of intelligence. I’ve struggled for decades to relate to the world; but this recent, collective debasement of rationality has nearly obliterated the few remaining foundations suitable to build hope upon.

it’s incredible how many godfathers ai has. i’ve lost count

weird i never hear about the godmothers though. wonder why that is?

our biggest challenge will be accepting we’re not the only intelligent beings

But it isn't challenging at all. All animals have some level of intelligence. Some of them even rather comparable to us. And the probability of existence of some aliens doesn't sound too crazy, they might be quite clever too. See no problem in acceptance here.

Not surprising that someone who evangelized artificial neural networks and algorithms like backpropagation at a time when people had largely written them off would have an inflated view of the technology’s potential.

Edit:

His peer, Yann LeCunn, seems to have a better perspective, basically stating that letting companies like Anthropic have a monopoly is the real threat to humanity: https://en.koreadaily.com/yann-lecun-ai-threat-humanity/

We're creating alien beings

No we're not, shut the fuck up

I'm willing to be selfish and choose humans

Is the selfishness in the room with us?

In all serious, choosing humans over AI of any type is seemingly always the correct answer.

Roko's Basilisk was displeased at that.