Reed Hastings

We're like, look at those guys.

They're so skinny.

They're hairless.

What?

They're pitiful.

But those guys were really intelligent.

and ultimately those homo sapiens dominated the Earth and killed off us Neanderthals.

So I would say intelligence per species has been highly selected for and that homo sapiens intelligence has allowed us to become the dominant species on Earth because we use our intelligence to make tools and do other things.

So I think it's a lot different than, say, mechanizing muscle power.

So if you think of bulldozers and how did that transform society, it did a lot, but it did it over 100 years.

And although muscles are important, they're not the core human attribute, thus the dislocation of the Neanderthals, which were much stronger than humans.

So if AI develops to actually be superintelligence, then it will be a lot more profound, I think, than anything else, and that we will have actually real species threats because the AI will keep getting smarter and smarter and smarter without limit.

And natural selection works quite slowly in terms of making humans more intelligent.

So then we have to sort of say, okay, how fast and how, you know, will the computers really think?

Obviously, when we all use AI as consumers, we can find, you know, it's pretty miraculous in some cases, but in other cases, it's not very effective.

But, you know, we're understanding more and more of the techniques.

And again, one theory is it'll be like Moore's Law and just AI will get better and better and better and better.

The other theory is it's sort of like the war on cancer, where cancer developed over a very long time.

It has lots of different etiologies.

And we keep coming up with a solution for one cancer, but not another.