Google's SHOCKING "POST AGI" paper...

TL;DR

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  DeepMind says AGI is only the beginning: The paper explicitly maps four paths from AGI to ASI and even discusses a further limit called universal AI, which Wes frames as unusually bold language coming from Google DeepMind rather than an outsider blog post.

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  ASI does not mean one god-model: Under the paper's definition, artificial superintelligence could be a collection of systems that together exceed human ability across virtually all domains, much like today's narrow superhuman systems such as AlphaGo and AlphaFold but generalized.

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  The four routes to ASI are already visible: DeepMind lists scaling laws, algorithmic paradigm shifts, recursive self-improvement, and multi-agent group formation, and Wes notes that coding agents and coordinated model ecosystems may already be early signs of the last two.

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  The hard limits on intelligence are far beyond human scale: The paper points to ceilings like the speed of light, computational irreducibility, P vs NP, and the halting problem, which Wes interprets as evidence that there is no special reason intelligence would stop neatly at human level.

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  AlphaGo's Move 37 is used as a creativity proof point: Wes highlights the paper's distinction between combinational, exploratory, and transformative creativity, arguing that self-play systems already showed non-human insight by making a move experts initially thought was simply wrong.

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  Roth ties the paper directly to today's AI arms race: He connects DeepMind's forecast to Anthropic's rise, xAI's reported $60 billion Cursor deal, Sergey Brin's coding-agent push at Google, and McKinsey's projected $7 trillion data center buildout by decade's end.