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AI intelligence explosion: growth may be faster than exponential, but not infinite

AI intelligence explosion: growth may be faster than exponential, but not infinite

Toby Ord's new paper explores when AI helping AI R&D could cause an intelligence explosion, and finds that explosive growth is harder to achieve than recent economics-inspired models suggest.

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