Joe Allen

And it's only a large language model, right?

It can only process text.

At the same time, you had Dali and all those sorts of independent programs coming out.

And it has just been an onslaught ever since.

You know, these models are now multimodal.

They are much, much more accurate in the ability to gather or to, within themselves or on the Internet, to gather and interpret information.

I'm wondering, you know, I've seen your posts.

I think your posts on Less Wrong, for instance, go back to 2009.

I mean, you've been thinking about this for a long time.

Was there any...

moment or any incident or incidents that really changed your mind on how soon something like artificial general intelligence could actually develop?

Absolutely.

And, you know, the scale of adoption is just so remarkable.

I think Google's Gemini has some 650 million users.

OpenAI's ChatGPT is over 800 million users.

MetaAI claims a billion users.

There's some overlap there, obviously, but you're talking about anywhere from a tenth to perhaps a sixth of the entire planet.

Liron, if you would, hang on through the break.

As the War Room Posse processes this and imagines a world in which artificial intelligence has perhaps taken over everything, you're going to want something to trade in.

It's probably not going to be Bitcoin, definitely isn't going to be dollars.