Submitted by Debuieba t3_10k691z in singularity
An OP last week said (with sources) that based on research by experts working in the field of AI, AGI may not arrive until after 2048
° Result: 11 negative votes
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A random user makes a comment on the post saying that AI experts are "fools" and don't consider exponential growth (???) and that AGI will arrive in a maximum of 4 years, however he does not elaborate on the argument
° Result: 13 positive votes
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Why would scholars in the field know less about the logic of exponential growth than the young man who downgrades an informative post, because, according to him, he has more knowledge about it?
I am an optimist and I always want to think that the Singularity (whether for good or bad) will arrive before I turn 50 (24 years from now), but sometimes I don't understand the critical balance of some followers of this Sub