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*sigh* I hate autocorrect. Of course I meant "enactive" AI above, not "inactive" AI. Though I think a lot of people might prefer the latter.

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Yes, we already have soulless destructive resource-maximizing AIs. They're called "limited liability corporations" and "hedge funds", and they run on a human substrate rather than a silicon one. What we're doing about them is what we're doing about AI. AGI, on the other hand, appears to be further away than commercially viable fusion power.

I am very much looking forward to people getting over the hype of limited language models to focus on the really _interesting_ things you can do with deep learning. I expect we'll see a lot of new drugs and materials discoveries.

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