I am ready!

Yeah you’re right but I never made the claim technology is perfect nor that it doesn’t have constraints that it must operate under. Maybe I should have been more succinct but my point is the thing humans call technology is an artifact of evolution creating new meta information structures that can self optimize and organize at ever increasing rates.

Well AI developed the covid vaccine in roughly 3 days, apparently.

It took 8 months to actually roll out, though. Mostly because of the glacial slow FDA safety vetting process, so AI has the potential speed up vaccine and drug development by an order of magnitude, but the bottleneck is with our outdated FDA, and organizations like them, that can and probably will continue to slow things to a crawl for the foreseeable future.

Our institutions need an update along with these AI systems that are coming online by the day.

no one here is afraid of death by itself, they are afraid of what they will miss out on in between now and the heat death of the universe.

i would gladly accept death if it means i get to spend thousands of years unveiling all the mystery's of reality.

but dying now knowing that i could miss out on all the epic sci fi like experiences is much a fate much worse than just being anxious of death alone

Fusion.

An adequate GPT could speed up the derivation of hypotheses from current research, as well as streamlining the experiment design process.

i look at it this way.

the AI that is creating the synthetic art is the pinnacle of human creativity and the value i place on the ai art is the same if not greater than if it came directly from a person becuase its literally derived from all the humans that have ever created any art and it resembles the collective consciousness of humanity which in my mind is much more valuable/beautiful concept.

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>I'm not saying it is a clear path to AGI, but it's definitely not obvious where this technology will lead to when progressed further.

It's pretty obvious this is the next stage of coding macros and auto-completion.

I became a member of Alcor, I have been for over six years.

My advice is to sign up for Cryonics.

Wonderful new bioweapons. Creative ways to kill

Why do people pay for art portraits when they can already take pictures instead? Shoot, clients often give artists pictures to use as reference to make portrait drawings. People can already add graphite drawing filters to their pictures, to imitate the look of a pencil drawing. But why do people still choose artists these days?

The reason as I understand it is because there’s value in having a portrait drawn by an artist. Its singular , flawed and unique, and the technique and skill behind the art gives it value. An AI artist that can imitate that but the end result will be as disposable as a picture taken by an iphone.

So I wonder if the “job” of the artist really will go away. People already don’t buy art for the end result, but the process instead.

Interesting. I’m pursuing counseling. With grad school, it’ll be 4-5 years before I’m done with school. I wonder what this tech will look like by the time I am licensed . Surely this will find itself into the mental health field as chatbots and AI avatar/companions. I already saw one ai avatar that looks scarily realistic. Only a matter of time that this tech starts to compete with humans in every single field .

Ye, I did, I really loved it

Don’t think about a career as something you do for money. Try and think of a career as something you get paid to do. It’s a subtle difference, but on one hand, it’s easy to grow tired of doing something you’re not interested in and don’t have a pull towards. On the other, there may be some things in your life you would do even if someone isn’t paying you to do it. Try and find a way to make the latter overlap with your day job and it won’t matter what happens in these fields. A strong interest in something cultivates mastery and expertise and that will be worth something to someone, if no one else, at least yourself.

I’m sure you’re right but it just doesn’t quite feel like it

Gonna be upfront on this, if it’s a hard takeoff/FOOM scenario, I think we’ll bypass the biotech phase altogether (outside of nontranshumanists I guess) and leapfrog right into hardnano.

Don't worry, it will happen sooner than you think most likely.

And even if singularity happens a little later there will still be better medicine.

It always has been,

Interpolation

>In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a type of estimation, a method of constructing (finding) new data points based on the range of a discrete set of known data points. In engineering and science, one often has a number of data points, obtained by sampling or experimentation, which represent the values of a function for a limited number of values of the independent variable. It is often required to interpolate; that is, estimate the value of that function for an intermediate value of the independent variable. A closely related problem is the approximation of a complicated function by a simple function.

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These large language models can't write (or fix or "understand") software unless they have seen human solutions to a problem. They are essentially interpolators, interpolating human work (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation).

Don't believe me? I built a site to demonstrate this, by testing OUTSIDE the training set. Try it:

https://BUGFIX-66.com

Copilot can solve 6 of these, and only the ones that appear in its training set. ChatGPT solves even fewer, maybe 3.

To test whether ChatGPT can code, you need to give it problems where it hasn't been trained on human solutions to similar or identical problems. Then you need to check the answer, because the language model is dishonest.

It's bogus.

I've got health issues. I just really want to make it to the singularity.

Never really understood what fomo (fear of missing out) actually felt like until now.

To get so close to the singularity and miss it by months.. or a year would suck beyond measure.

> this bullshit copyright anti-AI narrative has taken hold among so many people. Sorry but looking/listening to a bunch of stuff to learn what that stuff looks like and then using that learning to produce new, entirely original, works is not a f-ing copyright violation.

I think it mostly didn't actually take hold.

They just have a problem with automation itself. All of this talk about copyright is just the best they can do to argue that technological progress should be halted.

More automation is ultimately a good thing, but at the same time I find this news somewhat disconcerting as a college senior who just switched out of nursing into comp sci to pursue a career in web development. Considering it'll be two years before I get my degree, will I be screwed by the time I graduate?

Then again, with the release of each new model, paper, etc. it seems more and more likely that all knowledge-based professions are at risk of being automated sooner rather than later. Here's hoping for UBI in the near future, I suppose.

Yeah, nobody really knows what gonna happen soon, but it will be pretty revolutionary.

I'll just sit back and enjoy the show, thank god I got born now to see this.