Steven Pinker: No meaningful point for superintelligence arrival
haider1 · x · 2026-08-31
Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker argues there is no meaningful point at which one can say superintelligence arrived yesterday. Since no system can know the position and velocity of every particle in the universe, an AI that knows everything is not going to happen.
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