About whether AI could become superintelligent and make new scientific discoveries.
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Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI could become superintelligent and make new scientific discoveries.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Thanks for the link to Vinge's thing - I hadn't read that. Shame he didn't get the superintelligence within thirty years of 1993 and died in 2024. Still soonish. I've always been interested in physics and have a hunch that we can't figure things like quantum gravity due to mind limitations. If an AI could do that that would really be superintelligence.