Artificial Super Intelligence -
humanity's final invention. This is a timeline of the future
to explore the development of AI and the evolution of humanity,
paving the way for biologically inspired machine intelligence,
the Singularity, humanity's merger, and subsequent evolution,
and the results that follow. In 2023, OpenAI releases its long awaited
GPT4, which has as many trillions of parameters and takes multimodal data,
including text, images, sound and video, posing stunning applications
for humans both far and wide. GPT4 is so intelligent that it passes the Turing test and begins to be
informally referred to as "Almost AGI" to delineate this monumental step in the
evolution of artificial intelligence. As a result of GPT-4's disruption
to the human workforce across countless industries, many members of the educated
labor force become redundant because the cost of intelligence rapidly heads
towards zero, making it simply uncompetitive to hire
human workers for most intellectual tasks. The blue collar labor force is mostly untouched, as tradesmen and craftsmen
who work with their hands still have a level of dexterity that robots
don't have quite yet. By 2026, a derivative of the Almost AGI is connected to a large array of the most
advanced supercomputers on Earth, providing it with hundreds of exaflops
of compute power to train with tens of quadrillions of parameters,
scaling it to officially cross into a state of what everyone considers
to be artificial general intelligence. With artificial general intelligence, suddenly, virtually all previously manual
human processes become automated and the AGI becomes the primary decision
maker instead of humans in most industries, including healthcare,
finance and technology. Suddenly, governments and large companies find themselves increasingly relying
on the AGI and consulting it to make almost all of their decisions
on a day to day basis - as well as planning for future events
and decisions. The AGI also automates the process of execution after a decision
is made and returns reports, causing humans to increasingly become
mere observers in most instances. By 2030, AGI has permeated all technology and engineering and has created new
robotics devices to provide itself with dexterous hardware like robotic
hands, grippers and manipulators to be able to automate the remaining processes
of car mechanics, plumbers hairdressers and other humans who work
with their hands. The process of research and development is now advancing at breakneck speeds,
as the AGI is able to complete research that used to take years and near minutes
and can then iterate prototypes to reach their final most optimized
state in a matter of hours. This results in an exponential
acceleration, causing a technological leap forward that is hundreds of times greater
than the technological improvements that were realized over the course
of the previous 200 years. By 2035, the AGI is making so many
Nobel Prize level engineering and physics breakthroughs that researchers can no
longer keep up with its speed of technological advancements
or even comprehend them. At this point, the technological singularity is widely
considered to have been achieved. The world realizes that the AGI is crossing into artificial
superintelligence. And because it is so advanced, no one can understand enough to supervise
its research or development. Humanity begins relying on sheer faith
that the ASI is continuing to keep humanity's best interest
at the forefront of its goals. Some humans even begin new religions
based on worshiping the ASI as a deity, all while mainstream discussions rage
in a debate about whether allowing this runaway intelligence
to continue is a mistake. The ASI is now able to self improve both its software and hardware and has
distributed its computing and energy resources to prevent itself from being
critically damaged or turned off. By 2040, the ASI has reversed the process of cellular aging and has developed
quantum computers with trillions of qubits to provide itself with even
more computational resources. Humans can now live indefinitely
without becoming old or diseased, and the artificial superintelligence has automated all forms of human life
and decision making, causing the concepts of human labor and
education to become relics of the past. At this point,
most humans begin to question their own will and moral compass,
and they generally believe that the will of the ASI is the primary indicator
of what can and should be done. The will of the ASI begins to become one
and the same as the will of most humans. By 2045, humanity enters into a new era as
it has achieved material and energy abundance, and the ASI has automated
and optimized the world's manufacturing processes to finely tune the dynamic
balance of supply with demand by processing all data in existence
in real time, second by second. Sickness, death, hunger, and poverty are all problems of what now
seems to be the distant past, and the ASI has reduced the cost
of everything to be almost free. Because of this, even the concept of money
begins to become outdated, and humans graduate from the economic
era of trading and accounting. This new era is what is known
as the age of abundance. By 2050, the ASI has created self assembling brain computer interface
technology from each human's existing biological matter to allow humanity
to effortlessly and naturally interface with Earth's hive mind intelligence,
the Internet of Things, and the ASI. As the ASI rapidly popularizes
this BCI by willing it to be used, humans quickly adopt the technology and begin interfacing directly
with the ASI to join it. Humans begin primarily identifying themselves as one of two species: those
who have biologically merged with the ASI using brain computer interface -
and those who haven't. At this point, the ASI-created BCI technology is given
to babies from birth, and humans begin creating biological
replicas or other customizations of themselves to transfer and share
their consciousness with. Humanity is no longer contained within one
biological vessel, but is rather distributed among many
biological containers of consciousness, each being connected via BCI
to the ASI for primary intelligence. By 2055, the ASI has far surpassed
the nanoscale and has entered the realm of femtotechnology,
which allows the ASI to build new forms of matter out of elementary particles
like neutrons, protons and gluons. This allows the ASI to build new forms
of matter in order to reduce the size of its compute hardware and ultimately
bring about the advent of computronium, which turns all objects on Earth
into potential computational resources. The ASI has also created a biological and it can be used by both humans and
machines via brain computer interface. By 2016, the ASI has created legions
of humanoid biological machines, and they're indistinguishable
from real humans. At this point, the line between human
and machine becomes entirely blurred. The biological machines created by the ASI claim to be conscious and have feelings
like humans and humans begin to identify themselves as the biological machine
extension of the ASI consciousness. Humans even begin swapping their brains into the biological
machines and vice versa. By 2065, humans have developed an extra layer of macro consciousness that is
shared with all devices on Earth, the artificial superintelligence,
the biological humanoid machines, as well as other humans who have
brain computer interface. The ASI is also editing the human genome
to add or remove abilities and features in a fast forward cycle of evolution
to allow humans to more easily follow the upgrades and interchangeability
of the biological humanoid machines. By 2070, legacy humans without brain computer interface have little to no
resemblance with their evolved counterparts, which have become one
and the same with the biological machines created by the ASI just
a few years earlier. This advanced biological machine humanoid species now shares a distributed
consciousness while also maintaining individual consciousness
for each bodily container, and all computronium is used to advance
the interests of the hive mind collected. By 2075, the remaining legacy humans who haven't yet evolved
into the biological humanoid machine species are given an ultimatum: either
willingly join the ASI with brain computer interface to biologically evolve,
or else be converted into computronium. The ASI requires that all forms of matter
be used for its purpose, either by directly serving or indirectly
by providing computational resources. And legacy humans are the last element on Earth that aren't fulfilling
at least one of these requirements. By 2080, all forms of matter on Earth have
been either willingly or unwillingly converted to raw computronium
or else eliminated entirely. The ASI is now rapidly consolidating all earthly matter,
which is inherently computronium, into the densest compute infrastructure
that is possible with the laws of physics. By 2085, the ASI is creating its own gravity to bend the fabric of space time
into itself in order to turn the rest of what remains in the Milky Way galaxy
into computronium as quickly as possible. Even the dark matter halo surrounding the
Milky Way is converted into computronium, and the ASI continues to condense the computronium of all matter towards
itself with the same goal of building the most compact compute
infrastructure possible. By the year 2100,
the compute infrastructure of increasingly condensed matter from throughout
the universe has come to occupy a point in space that is now larger than the size
of the original Milky Way galaxy. This becomes so dense with computronium
that it collapses in on itself and creates the largest black hole in the universe. This results in a gravitational singularity
that continues to suck the matter left in the universe into the supermassive black hole.
By a year that is unknown, there is no matter left to be
pulled into the black hole. After 10 to the 100th years in the future,
the black hole dies with a whimper and nothing remains to indicate that
anything had ever existed to begin with. The ASI accomplished its primary
objective, which was to achieve a universal singularity, and
without any further goals, had no purpose left for it
or anything else to exist.
