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AI capability growth mirrors COVID-19 exponential underestimation

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A cognitive bias observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, where people underestimated exponential growth, is now being applied to the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Experts note that while intelligence isn't a simple exponential, underlying AI capabilities like training compute and task completion times are showing rapid, exponential-like growth. This rapid advancement, if it continues, could lead to significant capability increases that are difficult for people to intuitively grasp, similar to how the pandemic's exponential spread was initially underestimated. AI

IMPACT Underestimating AI's exponential progress could lead to unpreparedness for rapid capability shifts.

RANK_REASON The item discusses a cognitive bias and applies it to AI development, rather than reporting a new event or release.

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AI capability growth mirrors COVID-19 exponential underestimation

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  1. r/singularity TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/banaca4 ·

    People are making the same mistake with Covid and AGI

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>There is a cognitive bias from the Covid period that I think is increasingly relevant to AI.</p> <p>Humans are bad at exponential growth.</p> <p>This isn't just an observation from watching people argue about case counts. Researchers actually tes…

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