James McHugh
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And then on the other side, we're close to having sentient AI that will be able to evolve rapidly under its own tutelage.
I sat in a ballpark in San Francisco many years ago.
A friend of mine had developed some game where he was, you could own a, it was a silly game.
You could own this dog and my dog and your dog could decide to have a little dog together and get some of the features.
Dogs do that?
Yeah.
It was a digital dog, right?
It was a digital dog.
So my digital dog and your digital dog and the red ears would get carried forward.
It was a silly game.
And Chris says to me, look, I can speed this up.
And he then went four generations, five generations, six generations on the click of a button.
And while it was a silly game, what that suddenly helped me realize is when computers are ready to evolve from themselves, make a better version of themselves,
It takes you and I 20 odd years to try and achieve that.
They will do that in nanoseconds, right?
And if you then put that with quantum computing where you've got infinite compute power, the outcome of this thing is terrifying.
Its capacity to evolve and understand every possible outcome.
Yeah.
So if you are willing to accept the reality that there was a big bang 13 billion years ago, that the earth formed three, four billion years ago, life happened 200 million years after that and humans kind of evolved over the last several hundred thousand years and ultimately 70,000 years since our ancestors were living in caves.