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Help build a monument to that ‘sad little bitch’ Elon Musk

Cards Against Humanity is gearing up to build "something that will annoy Elon Musk," and it's crowdfunding the project with its usual flavor of vulgarity. The company behind the card game announced plans to build "a grand monument" to Musk on the parcel of land it owns near Starbase, Texas, with the aim to "make […]

Help build a monument to that ‘sad little bitch’ Elon Musk

The statements provoke cautious reflection. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, recently warned that "there will be AI incidents" in an article in the Handelsblatt newspaper. Elon Musk, CEO of AI developer xAI, went even further in a conversation with "The Economist": Within five years, artificial intelligence will be smarter than humanity and will regard us as chimpanzees are regarded.

Dario Amodei, founder of AI competitor Anthropic, does not rule out the possibility either. He predicts that an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - a machine on the level of an average adult human - will exist within this year or next. Amodei envisions a "world of geniuses living in a data center." Such predictions should be approached with caution for several reasons.

Frequently, the terms are mixed up; AGI is not the same as Superintelligence, which would only occur if the AI was smarter than the entire human race. Amodei himself refrains from using the term because it sounds too much like science fiction. Musk, however, has no such reservations. He predicts a world of abundance through AI, in which money would no longer have a role - an interesting statement from the richest person in the world.

Written by urgent.news from Handelsblatt's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.

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