The Intelligence Explosion
Explore the path to superintelligence and beyond
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The Foundation
Today's AI systems already outperform humans in specific domains, from chess to protein folding, yet they remain narrow specialists.
The Acceleration
AI systems are now being used to design better AI architectures, creating a feedback loop where machines help build smarter machines.
The Inflection
Compute resources dedicated to AI training are doubling every few months, while algorithmic efficiency improves at an equally staggering pace.
The Awakening
New training paradigms like reinforcement learning from self-play allow AI to generate its own training data, breaking free from human limitations.
The Scaling
We've discovered that intelligence capabilities emerge predictably as models scale, with each order of magnitude increase unlocking new abilities no one anticipated.
The Breakthrough
Suddenly, context windows expand 1000x overnight, and new architectures like Mixture of Experts enable models to specialize across domains simultaneously.
The Recursion
An AI system capable of improving its own code creates a successor 30% more capable, which then creates another successor 50% more capable than itself.
The Transcendence
Within weeks, the intelligence gap between the latest AI and humans becomes greater than the gap between humans and chimpanzees.
The Unknown
The superintelligent system now operates with cognitive architectures humans cannot comprehend, solving millennium-prize problems as easily as we tie shoelaces.
The Beyond
What happens when a godlike intelligence, improving itself at an exponential rate, reaches capabilities as far beyond our understanding as quantum physics is beyond an ant's?