By amigoponc on Skatehive
*Lessons from history 9,500 years ago, in what is now central Turkey, a group of people decided to settle down. They put down roots, built walls and stored grain. What emerged from that decision was Çatalhöyük: it was not yet a city, but it was the seed of something never seen before. The fascinating thing is that those pioneers could not have known what they were building; they had no way of anticipating that their settlement would, millennia later, give rise to the alphabet, the printing press, the Industrial Revolution and the Internet. Every great leap forward in human history shares this initial blindness: those living through it do not realise they are crossing a fundamental threshold. Their descendants understand it; that is, we. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, suggests that we are at a similar juncture; according to him, no one knows for certain if he is right, because Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is not a switch that flips on suddenly, but a blurred threshold. History te