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...von Neumann was asked what it would take for a computer, or some other mechanical entity, to begin to think and behave like a human being... He took a very long time before answering, in a voice that was no louder than a whisper... He said that it would have to grow, not be built... He said that it would have to understand language, to read, to write, to speak... And he said it would have to play, like a child.
labatut uniquely conveys the dark potential of artificial general intelligence (AGI) that looms over the whole of humanity. through the perspective of Lee Sedol, the world's best go player, we get our first hint at the upheaval of fundamental ways of knowing that super-intelligent AGI will unleash upon our hopelessly limited perspectives. AlphaGo, by completely reshaping a domain of thought and strategy encompassing millennia of human thought and experience in a short manner of time, powered by engineers who scarcely understand its own capabilities, is emblematic of the torrential changes to the world under whose currents we will be swiftly swept under.
the world of logic and reason upon which we built our dominance will simply be passed on to more worthy minds, leaving us as helpless and ignorant as a glaze-eyed squirrel in the middle of a busy highway. and nonsensically, in the same vein as the blind push for progress that wrought the destruction of atomic weaponry, we are actually racing towards the facilitation of our own inferiority. equipped with our modern philosophies regarding science, it seems we have no choice but to continue racing towards this point. and all of human creativity and expression, as was in the game of go, will be extinguished.