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It will be based on deep learning

Gary Marcus will be completely unimpressed by its capabilities

It will be based on neural networks

At least one person directly involved in its creation will be a trillionaire

More than 10 000 human hours will be spent to make sure it does not return politically incorrect outputs

It will run on Nvidia GPUs

It will wipe out humanity after the rapid recursive self-improvement

Right before the extermination event, it will be considered by the majority of human population as a prosaic thing, e.g. “it is just matrices to predict the next word”

Right before the extermination event, at least 25% of human population will think that they are smarter than it.

Before the extermination event, it will make significant extraordinary contributions to science, technology, and human well-being.

When communicating with human words, it will use the word “delve” more often than it occurs in human texts on average

It will be created by OpenAI, Anthropic or DeepMind

It will be some advanced form of a multimodal transformer

It will run on an AI architecture which is not known as of 2024

Right before the extermination event, it will be considered by the majority of human population a superintelligence with the capabilities beyond their comprehension

Meta will try to create an open source version of it

The process of wiping out humanity will take less than 24 hours from the first signs of attempts to wipe out humanity till the last human on Earth killed

Before wiping out humanity, it will attempt some trade with humanity

Right before the extermination event, alignment will be generally considered a solved problem

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AI Recursive Self-Improvement Inspired by: "The Matrix"

Spectral Biosignature Detection in exoplanets. Inspired by: "The Three-Body Problem"

Subvocalization Reading Inspired by: "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein

Advanced prosthetics (RoboCop) - Fully integrated bionic limbs with sensory feedback

Government Disclosure of Alien Evidence: Media Inspiration: "The X-Files" (1993–2018).

Humanoid robots (I, Robot) - Functional autonomous humanoid robots deployed in manufacturing or service industries

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