When I first began writing my book “Gaia Wakes” eight years ago, I did not anticipate the sheer rapidity of artificial intelligence's ascent. Using former Google executive Mo Gawdat's recent estimation — that AI's power doubles every 5.9 months — today's AI systems are roughly 79,000 times more powerful than when I first put pen to paper.
Even more startling, this extraordinary leap has occurred without yet leveraging radical accelerators such as quantum computing or fully self-coding AIs. Clearly, traditional human media — our journals, books and articles — are wholly inadequate to the task of tracking, let alone comprehending, the exponential trajectory we are witnessing.
