And it is how the humanity extinct.

Kurzgesagt put out a pretty good video about proteins recently. A nice, big-picture overview with great visualizations.

What could go wrong?

FWIW this is literally one of Yudkowsky’s scenarios for how AI could end us.

It is how humanity will jump to the next level.

Don't put too much stock in Yudkowsky's hallucinations. He has no understanding of biology and no unique talent for predicting the outcome of AI development. Any time he talks about the subject, it's a Rube Goldberg machine of fantasies.

The reality is that once a computer hits AGI that's sufficiently more intelligent than humans, there is basically an uncountable number of ways it can end humanity. Yudkowsky likes to bloviate about a few hand-picked bizarre examples so that people remember him when they discuss AGI.

Guess it's working.

Would be cool to somehow crispr edit our brains to have > genius level intelligence

Maybe we could use AI in the future to make life that could survive in other places in the solar system. Mists of Jupiter, methane seas of titan, dusty lands of mars.

Yeah, I think people took that comment about 'instantly killing us by releasing a poison in the atmosphere' a bit too seriously. Maybe because it was so specific, idk.

But he does have a point that we should be concerned about an autonomous entity smarter than humans in all cognitive ability. An entity that has no known desire apart from a core function to improve and adapt to its environment.

Such an entity would most certainly begin competing with us for resources. So, his emphasis on alignment is correct, and he is probably not overstating the difficulty in achieving that.

Everything else he says is a bit too doomer with little to back it up.

The first thing human made after discovered atomic equation is an atomic bomb.

I can picture myself amidst the methane seas of Titan.

This hurt my brain to watch. Definitely worth it.

You really can't see the potencial of this technology? We're literally talking about becoming something more, something that will raise questions about whether we can still call ourselves homosapiens or whether we should already apply a new name to our new evolutionary state...

it is called eugenics like nazi wanted to do.

being able to simulate lots of these interacting with each other and the real world is still part of the problem. but a step toward better understanding nonetheless.

why are you so evil?? you would create sentient being just so they could live in these harsh places while you live comfy on earth?

If you design them well it could be a comfy place to them.