alt Hacker NewsI'd take ASI (or even AGI) more seriously if we could actually propose problems such things could solve. That's actually fun to think about! As it is, it feels a lot more like a really crappy drug that got slipped into some peoples' drinks that makes them ramble in random fits of psychotic mania.
Manipulating people is not a very difficult problem, frankly. You certainly don't need AI for that; it just made it cheaper.
It can farm resources in a game for you.
Yes, so can a custom model trained just for this, and so can a guy on the other side of the world that makes 5$/hour.
Like computers or electricity, the point is not being able to do anything specific, but being able to solve problems not known in advance, cheaper than it was possible before.