Ezra Klein in New York Times: "The Government Knows A.G.I. Is Coming"
For the last couple of months, I have had this strange experience: Person after person -- from artificial intelligence labs, from government -- has been coming to me saying: It's really about to happen. We're about to get to artificial general intelligence.
What they mean is that they have believed, for a long time, that we are on a path to creating transformational artificial intelligence capable of doing basically anything a human being could do behind a computer -- but better. They thought it would take somewhere from five to 15 years to develop. But now they believe it's coming in two to three years, during Donald Trump’s second term.
They believe it because of the products they're releasing right now and what they're seeing inside the places they work. And I think they're right...
Full interview by Ezra Klein with Ben Buchanan, the former special adviser for artificial intelligence in the Biden White House here.
