Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind · chapter 20 · id sapiens-c20-03-artificial-intelligence-may-ev

“Artificial intelligence may eventually surpass human intelligence and create non-organic life forms, potentially making Homo sapiens obsolete.”

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OpenAI (2023), GPT-4 Technical Reportsource alive

GPT-4 demonstrates capabilities including passing bar exams, medical licensing exams, and graduate-level reasoning benchmarks. AI capabilities have advanced far beyond what was foreseeable in 2011.

Jumper et al. (2021), Nature 596:583-589 -- AlphaFold protein structure predictionDOI registry: valid

AlphaFold solved the protein folding problem with unprecedented accuracy, demonstrating AI's ability to surpass human performance on specific scientific challenges.

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