Two years ago, I noted that we had clearly entered the era of general intelligence, but that it was "too soon" to expect widespread social impacts.

In the last 2 years, AI has gone from the green line to the orange line

In those 2 years, AI development has followed the best possible of the 3 paths I suggested (foom/GPT-4-takes-my-job/Slow Takeoff). Returns to scale seem to be delivering a steady ~15 IQ points/year and cutting edge models appear to be largely a compute-intensive project that allows (relatively) safety-conscious leading labs to explore the new frontiers while others reap the benefits with ~1 year delay.

Possibly the most important graph in the world right now

If I had to identify 3 areas where GPT-3.5 was lacking, it would have been:

reasoning
modeling the real world
learning on-the-fly

Of those three, reasoning (o3) is largely solved and we have promising approaches for [...]

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First published:
December 29th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ocvpbiAJsxkB3Hiaj/what-happens-next

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“What happens next?” by Logan Zoellner

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