Steven Pinker: No meaningful point to say "yesterday no superintelligence, today we do"
haider1 · x · 2026-08-31
Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker argues that there is no point at which it is meaningful to claim superintelligence suddenly arrived. He notes that no system can know the position and velocity of every particle in the universe, so an all-knowing AI is not feasible.
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