And yet you made a post wasting everyone's time including yourself, congratulations you played yourself even harder.

The leave button is free.

We don't need agi

Well I spend a lot of time on this subreddit so...

Thanks for the link! An extremely topical comic, and written by someone who is familiar with the issue, looks like.

That's a reasonable question. There are a few, very limited experimental examples of positionally controlled chemical reactions. Regarding more general capabilities that may be available in the future, here's, for instance, an interesting and relevant peer-reviewed theoretical analysis:

http://www.molecularassembler.com/Papers/TarasovFeb2010.pdf

That link is from Freitas's website. You can also see the abstract in the publisher's site, but the full text seems to be paywalled:

http://www.aspbs.com/ctn/contents-ctn2010.htm#v7n1

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jctn/2010/00000007/00000002/art00002;jsessionid=132a35vdij2o1.x-ic-live-02

I see the 2010s as a decade of maturing the technologies of the late 2000s.

Suddenly humanity had this massive influx of online users, and with them mountains of data, everyone was now taking pictures, filming, streaming, ... and sharing it online through social media.

Data sets exploded, so much so that a new branch of data management was called into life: Big Data. When I was in uni around 2010 that was one of the hottest topics. Because all these companies now had stupendous amounts of data but were unsure how to process it or even what to do with it.

On the commercial side there was hope it could be used to better target ads, to better predict what customers want.

Talks (more like whispers) were starting to float that maybe, just maybe, these grand new datasets could help us get better AI systems. Perhaps some day have systems that were better than humans at things like image recognition.

What I mean to say, in short, is this: The 2010s taught us how to process lots of data. And we're now starting to see that bear fruit.

Technological change and disruption in consumer products and use was massive between 2003 to 2013. From 2013 to present it was more maturing and defining of products and services that were already introduced.

We might be entering a new phase of massive consumer disruption with the likes of openchat ai, stable diffusion ai and other related tech.

A funny thing happened on the road to the Nanotechnology Research and Development Act

It is possible to leave without announcing it.

it didn't

I love the smell of metaposts in the evening. It is not a waste of our time at all.

There was a dude who automated his Tinder using AI I think. Saw it on tiktok a while ago

Video games most definitely look much better than 2013, lol. Like a whoolllllle lot better. Even since 2018 there have been huge leaps. Try looking for YouTube videos that illustrate this.

Go to subs like /r/Artificial, or /r/MachineLearning or /r/Longevity if you want more academic subs with less predictions. This sub is called Singularity for a reason.

First dating site that gets this , wins.

>Singular-minded

Why thank you, it is in the name of the subreddit after all.

Business owners don't really have a job in the first place; if the company turns a profit and their ownership isn't somehow revoked then they have no reason to quit, even if any work like management or executive decision-making is done by AGI for them.

Since the businesses are the private property of the owners they hold the right to any value that comes of the company's functionings, no matter how little work the owner contributes vs the AGI or how important they are.

Go to r/Futurology, you'll love it there. It's where intelligent people such as yourself post.

Sorry.

explain why they did scan all those books? :D

I'm not certain what discussions are being shouted down, but this is a good resource for all kinds of good tech so it's a must in my book. I have seen a somewhat liberal hive mindset, but since this is intellectual fodder that is to be expected. It's still one of my top resources every morning.

Nah, doubt it. They did expect troubles (and got them) when scanning all those books, yet they did it anyway. Google can afford the best lawyers. It's something else. Maybe it's not that good, maybe it's publicity stunt, maybe they want to gauge the reaction. Maybe they don't want to be first, so all the anit-ai art hateful crowd goes after someone else first. etc. etc.

What exactly were you looking in a sub called singularity? This is a reddit sub, you can follow social media from subject matter experts if you're looking for more formal/technical content

Yes, I see no other way to put it. To be fair, this is more the rule than the exception. I've seen just as bad or worse from people who should have (and probably did) know better. The fact that big bucks from the National Nanotechnology Initiative were at stake sure didn't help. See, for instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler%E2%80%93Smalley_debate_on_molecular_nanotechnology

Or just doing those press releases as marketing stunts. That's what OpenAI did with GPT2, and it worked for them very well.