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Hazem Hassan🔸's avatar

Possible erratum: the Metaculus graph is misplaced. I believe it's meant to be right after the colon in "On the the forecasting platform Metaculus, the predicted date for AGI’s development has dropped by over two decades since 2022:"

Senthil Kumar's avatar

There is another way to look at Moravec's paradox. Economists refers to tasks that can’t be easily automated as "weak links". A job is a bundle of tasks, and AI can automate only some of them. A classic example is the radiologist. Geoffrey Hinton predicted that AI reading scans would make radiologists obsolete. However, the numbers actually grew. This happened because the rest of what radiologists do - like talking to patients and working with colleagues - is the part AI cannot easily replace.

Jeffrey Maxim's avatar

Some other arguments for longer timelines:

> The public will react negatively to AI and constrain its development through regulation

> AI is too unaligned and is the source of a lot of risk. Businesses and consumers become iffy about adoption, insurance with high premiums becomes required, and it becomes heavily regulated

> The supply chain for chips is heavily concentrated, and at least one major piece, TMSC, is in a very geopolitical vulnerable spot

> It will take longer for the economy to allocate a sufficient amount of resources to achieve enough comptue for an intelligence explosion

> Even if we got an intelligence explosion there could still be other bottlenecks, primarily resources and physical capital

(I don't necessarily endorse these.)

diana’s schole's avatar

great summary, Sarah! Reading this article a year after its publication, and it looks like the case for short timelines is getting stronger and stronger.