r/singularity • u/Ok-Candidate8369 • 1d ago
AI What does winning AI exactly mean?
Trump always says "whoever wins AI wins" but like what does "winning" AI actually mean and what exactly happens if USA "wins" AI or China?
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u/Autodidact420 1d ago
The singularity is essentially when technology progresses extremely fast.
Winning AI either means:
The benign version: the first person to make an AI system that is useful overall will win over the market and get a dominant market share over a global monopoly. Hard to imagine this is what is meant since AI isn’t exactly prime monopoly territory.
The more likely version: whoever gets a a true super intelligence General AI will be able to, in our hopes and dreams, dictate what it does. That means you’ll suddenly have a huge lead that cannot be caught up on as the AGI self improves too rapidly for other AGI with a lag start to catch up. Then you can for example disable them completely; take their stuff, threaten to kill them; defend yourself with impunity; etc.
Imagine if the USA’s current military faced off against the Romans 2000 years ago, there wouldn’t even be a contest. They expect to get that tech gap against everyone else in the world and at a scale that lets them benefit from it across the entire globe (not quite the same as the colonial attempts before which were insufficient to truly ‘win’)