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What do these lasting success stories have in common?

• Self-reinforcing chemical metabolisms

• DNA as a template for reproduction

• Multi-cell cooperation

• Multi-cell specialization

• Nerve cells

• Neural ganglia

• Nervous systems

• Brains

• Self-awareness

• Language

• Written language

• Books

• Printing press

• Wireless communication

• Transistors

• Digital memory

• Computer processors

• Networking

• Internet

• AI

Answer: They all introduced dramatic qualitative and quantitative improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, interaction, speed, reliability, flexibility, adaptability, and application of information.

AI is on its way to being self-designed. It is already assisting in its own design, speeding up work, by doing "mundane" things that would otherwise take people more time to do.

Intelligence has not been an S-curve technology.

AI, the systematic automation, manufacturing and increasingly recursive improvement of intelligence, is not an S-curve technology.



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