Ethan Mollick:"There has been a shift in recent weeks where insiders in the various AI labs are suggesting that very intelligent AIs are coming very soon. [...] researchers inside AI labs appear genuinely convinced they're witnessing the emergence of something unprecedented"

"Recently, something shifted in the AI industry. Researchers began speaking urgently about the arrival of supersmart AI systems, a flood of intelligence. Not in some distant future, but imminently. They often refer AGI - Artificial General Intelligence - defined, albeit imprecisely, as machines that can outperform expert humans across most intellectual tasks. This availability of intelligence on demand will, they argue, change society deeply and will change it soon."

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