Frontier AI is shifting from 'channeling humanity's skills' to 'alien intelligence', say posters
arpitingle · x · 2026-09-17
tszzl offers an analogy: using frontier AI is less like summoning an alien intelligence and more like going avatar state — channeling the accumulated skills of every brilliant human who recorded themselves before you. arpitingle replies that he loved the analogy, but this year we are quickly moving into alien territory.
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