AI Will Out-Think Humans

Tech billionaires are racing to reach artificial general intelligence—even if it makes us obsolete

- By Christopher DiCarlo

If you haven't heard of artificial general intelligence, you will soon—a lot. AGI is the holy grail of all business enterprise and defence planning. This new form of artificial intelligence will be able to surpass humans in most cognitive tasks and do them thousands of times faster. Whichever tech-bro billionaire gets there first will have built a machine that tells us how to build all the other machines. To this end, Sam Altman is building Stargate, a computer farm in Abilene, Texas, that will be larger than Central Park. Not to be outdone, Mark Zuckerberg is creating his own behemoth data centres—one in Ohio called Prometheus and another in Louisiana called Hyperion. Both will be close to the size of Manhattan. Elon Musk's Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, in Memphis, Tennessee, will each take up hundreds of acres. And Dario Amodei of Anthropic is developing Project Rainier with Amazon across multiple states; the first stage covers 1,200 acres in Indiana. It's set to be the world's largest AI compute cluster.