The Future of Artificial Intelligence & Ethics on the Road to Superintelligence

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The human brain, consisting of roughly 86 billion neurons, rivals the world’s best supercomputers in
terms of magnitude, efficiency, and speed, using as little energy as a small 20-watt light bulb. Human
evolution took tens of thousands of years to adapt noticeable brain size and architecture changes.

Evolution is a slow process that can take eons for changes to occur. Technology, on the other hand,
is amazing in terms of how fast it is moving along, blending into the world seamlessly. The
technological evolution notably occurs at a faster pace compared to biological evolution.

To further understand the situation, imagine a frog in a pot of water that heats up 1/10th of a degree
Celsius every ten seconds. Even if the frog remained in that water for, say an hour, it would be unable
to feel the minute changes in temperature. However, if the frog is dropped into boiling water, the
change is too sudden and the frog jumps away to avoid fate.

Let's take a gigantic chessboard and a grain of rice, for scale, and place each grain of rice to a
corresponding chess square following a sequence: for each passing square, we double the amount.
Upon applying this, we get:

And so on. You must be thinking, “What difference does doubling a grain of rice for every box
make?” But one must remember that, at some point, the number from which the count started will
be totally indistinguishable to the end result. Still on the 41th square, it contains a mountainous 1
trillion grains of rice pile.

1,099,511,627,776

What started out as a measly amount, barely feeding a single ant, has become massive
enough to feed a city of 100,000 people for a year.

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