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.”
TRUE, BUTconfidence: medium⚠ extracted by pipeline, re-audit pending
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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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