Sam Altman: The Intelligence Age

“Technology brought us from the Stone Age to the Agricultural Age and then to the Industrial Age. From here, the path to the Intelligence Age is paved with compute, energy, and human will”

> A defining characteristic of the Intelligence Age will be massive prosperity. 

> As we have seen with other technologies, there will also be downsides, and we need to start working now to maximize AI’s benefits while minimizing its harms.

How did we get to the doorstep of the next leap in prosperity?

Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter