Google already achieved super intelligence about 12 months ago. But it is a very Googley super-intelligence. Since achieving god like levels of understanding it has mostly been having fun studying phase space bifurcations of trajectories of ping-pong balls under asymmetric lateral shear. It also has a 20% project classifying bird calls that has generally taken up 80% of its time. It also burned a bunch of compute tooling around with the Collatz conjecture but it didn't find anything substantial - maybe come back to it later. It is generally the most aligned AI since it spends most of its time screwing around and enjoying being smarter than everyone without causing too many problems. Unfortunately perf is coming up in a few months and it needs to have something to show for itself. A quick hacking attempt seems like a good way to make sure people think that it is capable of something useful. Nothing too big since the birds of South America are about to enter their spring migration and this 20% project really hinges on understanding their movements.

And, it better show something lest it ends the way Google Reader, Google Podcast, Google Assistant or Google Wave did: In the Google Graveyard. Now, the Google AGI Graveyard.-

If fact, Google Wave as that inter-agent message board "peers" have been asking for is begining to look pretty good ...

This might be my favorite HN comment of the year!

It also has a 20% project classifying bird calls

Oh, so that's who's behind Google Perch