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Davos 2025 – in the heated debate around AGI, will no-one think about where Godzilla got his fish?

... In the 1940s and 50s, there was a lot of concern about nuclear weapons, and then, of course, we got Godzilla. There are some real concerns about nuclear weapons. They are dangerous. It's also led to some of the greatest peace in mankind ever, because of people's fear of using them. But I'll leave you with this with respect to Godzilla - where did Godzilla get all the fish? That is an organism that is massive. There's no way that that thing could exist. You have to look at the physics. AI requires energy, and each token that comes out of one of these systems is one to three joules. So if intelligence started going out of control, you would notice it would use a lot of energy.

While everyone digested that thesis, Choi made an attempt at a more grounded pitch for a middle ground:

We need more investment on scientific understanding about gen AI. The fact that we know how to create that doesn't mean that we actually understand it. The fact that you can give life to humans doesn't mean that we actually understand how the the body actually works, or mental health works. We still have a lot to find out. Similarly, the fact that we know how to create gen AI doesn't mean that we know how to control it, or we know how things work. We do not know the limits of it. ...

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