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Digital ExistentialismBafflegab

AGI Timeline

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What it means

A prediction about the arrival of human-level machine intelligence, always delivered with total confidence and always wrong.

What it actually means

Ask me again in five years.

How it is used in a sentence

"On my AGI timeline we have roughly twenty-four months."

Filed under

Digital Existentialism — Ideas that were briefly worth billions, explained by people who are briefly employed.

Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.


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