Episode 8.72: The trans-human achievable by advanced GPT architectures is only the first of many.

Human beings are used to thinking of themselves as being top dog in certainly the world and until relatively recently in the universe. The advent of something that is genuinely transhuman in knowledge, wisdom, reason and analytical power threatens that position. Yet we like a Russian doll look down on those inside us, that we perceive as smaller and less sophisticated than us, and we are very reluctant to think, or conceive of the possibility that there might be Russian dolls that are bigger than ours to whom we will seem weak, foolish, pathetic and deluded. Yet just that is what the advent of advanced artificial general intelligence involves, supposes, achieves. There is already some humble pie to be eaten.