Ask HN: Will general AI be the last human invention?
General AI learns to code and self improves to super intelligence. Problems beyond our abilities are trivial to it. Depending on which camp you fall into we either enter a stage of Nirvana or get replaced by a superior species of our own creation.<p>A lot of very smart computer scientists and philosophers fall into one camp or the other.<p>Do you buy it?<p>If so, isn&#x27;t any business not working on general AI essentially a lifestyle business?<p>Who would you hope realizes the breakthrough?<p>As the theory goes the first AI that hits self improvement level will go from a dumb human level to a super intelligent level in weeks, days, or even hours so the first mover will be the last mover.<p>Pick your poison. Google, Apple, government, academia, lone wolf?<p>It&#x27;s quite an interesting question.