The video explores the history of intelligence, from its emergence in simple organisms to the development of human intelligence and its unparalleled impact. It then focuses on the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), from narrow AI capable of specific tasks to the potential emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The video highlights the potential benefits and catastrophic risks of AGI, emphasizing the unpreparedness of humanity for such a transformative technology and the urgent need for careful consideration of its implications. Humanity's final invention. Artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence, or AI, is software that performs mental tasks with a computer code that uses silicon instead of neurons to solve problems. In the beginning, AI was very simple lines of code, on paper, mere proofs of concept to demonstrate how machines could perform mental tasks. Only in the 1960s, did we start seeing the first examples of what we would recognize as AI, a chatbot. In 1964, approach program to sort through molecules In 1965, slow specialized systems, requiring experts to use them. Their intelligence was extremely narrow, built for a single task inside a controlled environment, the equivalent of flat worms 500 million years ago, doing the minimum amount of mental work progress in AI. research paused several times, when researchers lost hope in the technology, but just like changing environments, create new niches for life, The world around AI changed between 1950 and 2000. Computers got a billion times faster, while programming became easier and widespread in 1972. AI could navigate a room. in 1989, it could read handwritten numbers, but it remained a fancy tool, no match for humans. Until in 1997, an AI shocked the world by beating the world champion in chess, proving that we could build machines that could surpass us. But we calmed ourselves because a chest spot is quite stupid. Not a flatworm, but maybe a bee only able to perform a specialized, narrow task. But within this narrow task, it's so good that no human will ever again beat AI. a chess as computers continued to improve, AI, became a powerful tool for more and more tasks. In 2004, it drove a robot on Mars. In 2011, it began recommending Youtube videos to you. But this was only possible because humans broke down problems into easyto digest chunks that computers could solve quickly, until we taught AIs to teach themselves, rise of the self--learning machines. AI experts began drastically improving forms of AI software called Neur neural networks, enormously huge networks of artificial neurons that start out being bad at their tasks. They then used machine learning, which is an umbrella term for many different training techniques and environments that allows algorithms to write their own code and improve themselves. The scary thing is that we don't exactly know how they do it, and what happens inside them, just that it works, and that what comes out. the other end is a new type of AI, a capable black box of code. The these new AIs could master complex skills extremely quickly, with much less human help. They were still narrow intelligences, but a huge step up. In 2014, Facebook AI could identify faces with 97% accuracy. In 2016, an AI beat the best humans in the incredibly complex game of Go. In 2018, a self--learning AI learned chess in 4 hours, just by playing against itself and then defeated the best specialized chess bot. Since then, machine learning has been applied to reading image processing, solving tests. Potential benefits of AGI include solving complex problems like disease and climate change, accelerating scientific discovery, and boosting economic productivity. However, risks involve the potential for misuse in autonomous weapons or manipulative technologies, unforeseen consequences from highly intelligent systems exceeding human control, and significant societal disruption from job displacement and economic inequality. The sheer power AGI could wield necessitates careful consideration of ethical implications and robust safety measures. Unforeseen consequences are a major concern. This segment explores the concept of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which possesses human-like general intelligence. It contrasts AGI with current narrow AI, emphasizing the potential societal disruption that an AGI could cause due to its speed, scalability, and ability to perform a wide range of tasks far exceeding human capabilities. The segment also discusses the uncertainty surrounding the timeline for AGI development and the lack of societal preparedness for its arrival. Humanity is the only example we have of an animal becoming smarter than all others.13:56And we have not been kind to what we perceive as less intelligent beings. AGI might be the last invention of humanity. It's possible that it could become the most intelligent and therefore most powerful being on Earth, a god in a box that could exercise its power to bring unimaginable wealth and happiness to humans, while securing our future, or it could subvert civilization and bring about our end with humanity.