An engaging essay by Sam Altman on the Singularity being close at hand.

We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.

Sam writes about the cost of chatGPT Query - (People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes. It also uses about 0.000085 gallons of water; roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.)

He envisions a 2030’s decade of abundance driven by intelligence and energy. “We are climbing the long arc of exponential technological progress”

May we scale smoothly, exponentially and uneventfully through superintelligence.

Sam Altman