[justcallmejm]

“panoply of grifters and chancers and financial engineers” — accurate

Yet, let’s look at intelligence for a sec… it’s been evolving for quite some time and isn’t stopping at humans. Humans are building intelligence at a rate far faster than biological evolution. It is almost inevitable (pending humans wiping ourselves out by any number of catastrophic failures of governance) that we will build intelligence that supersedes our own. Yeah?

I’m a co-founder of Aloe (https://aloe.inc) - a generalist AI that recently became state of the art on the GAIA benchmark. As I was hand-checking the output of our test to ensure Aloe had done the task, not just found answers in some leak online, I had a real come-to-Jesus moment when it hit that this agent is already a better problem-solver than most of the adults I’ve worked with in my career. And this is the floor of its capability.

It is a humbling moment to be human. The few humans at the helms of companies developing these technologies will inevitably reshape the trajectory of humanity.