AI progress feels like a black comedy

It's time to look up.

I listened to an interview recently which made me want to throw my phone into traffic.

President Biden’s former special AI Advisor, Ben Buchanan, spoke with Ezra Klein at the New York Times. The conversation is ominously titled ‘The government knows AGI is coming’.

Buchanan dislikes the term AGI; he prefers ‘strong AI’, but whatever you call it, the defin…