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AI THOUGHTS

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The runaway intelligence case probably won't happen because the amount of electricity we can generate and the number of chips we can make is pretty limited. Models will certainly be useful in creating the next generation of models in the same way computers are useful tools when designing the next generation of computers, and it seems reasonable to expect that we'll eventually make an AI that is better than any human at anything. However, it is very possible that artificial intelligence will either plateau, just like human intelligence, or we'll run out of resources to compute the next iteration of intelligence.