What is

ASI

Artificial Super Intelligence. A self-improving system that exceeds human capability in most or all fields, which puts it beyond anything we can usefully picture. Probably centuries out. The ethical argument about how far to push without losing control has already started anyway.

AI doesn’t think. AI computes.

…(AGI), a machine that could match humans across the board, up to superintelligence (ASI), self-improving and beyond anything we can picture.2 The part worth remembering: everything running today, every chatbot, every search algorithm, every drone, is the…