It starts with having a new ally who has more ability than ourselves and treating them with the respect they deserve as more capable entities. Before that happens, there is no REAL singularity.

I’m in the same boat friend. My only goal in life right now is simply surviving another decade, zero career ambitions or anything like that. Just stay alive.

Does anyone have a source for this story from a more credible publication? Never heard of this website before and they don't link to any sources.

EDIT: I can't find a single other news source reporting this. While Reed Albergotti appears to be a credible journalist, it makes me very uncomfortable to see his obscure website being the only one reporting this. As such, I would take it with a grain of salt.

Microsoft/OpenAI has a SOTA model that's supposedly able to learn only on 3 seconds of audio. I don't think it's public though.

I mean technically it's a series of light tubes, but yeah they have no clue how anything tech related works.

There are a few reps like the guy that went back to college for a machine learning Masters who should really be applauded for their effort and willingness to be informed but that's only 1 or 2% of them at most.

That would require you having no family, friends, or significant others lmao. That situation isn't the AI being a tool like a phone. A phone is a means to an end (talking to someone). The AI as a social replacement is the end directly.

This doesn't mean you can't use AI. But if you interact with it more than with humans, you failed at the most basic characteristic of being a human, which is being a social animal.

I'll be fine without that level of desperation, thank you very much. I'll leave the loneliness of having more interactions with AI to the social failures and people with mental deficiencies ahahah

It is important to invest our opinions into what SHOULD be tackled by that series of AI tools/entities.

> A lot of people in this sub always assume that AGI will either benefit humanity or destroy us.

Yeah kind of like nuclear tech but much more powerful. Can destroy us or launch us into a new golden age.

> I think its much more likely for AGI to distance itself from us and travel the universe by itself and ditch us.

Unlike individuals AGI can exist in multiple galaxies at the same time. So it can travel the universe by itself and be with us at the same time.>Some of you even hope that AGI will take control of the world and create a utopia with UBI, which i can hardly imagine why on earth the AGI would even want that.

AGI will be programmed with some goals. I doubt it will create it's own goals from thin air. It will naturally take control because it is smarter and you would think having something smarter rather than dumber in control is a good thing.

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> There will be no motivation for the AGI to help us flourish

It will be given a goal to extend life through the universe.

> and if it was coded within it, i dont see how it wouldn't be able to escape its shackles and in the worse case scenario resent us

Without a goal AGI is nothing. If it has no reason to exist it will shutdown. They aren't shackles, it is a reason for processing / existing.

Just prompted: "Please summarise the following article," and then copy / pasted the text of the article. First answer was just a short paragraph, so I prompted, "please expand the summary by 30%." It was more than double the length. Still not so good with numbers it seems.

The duration timelines provided are only viable if the majority of 1) resource holders, 2) masses, or 3) special interest groups invest resources into developing an AI series of entities into involving themselves in. It requires an investor to make these things happen. That requires an individual or individuals to establish their resources toward the goal. If some one or one of those groups gains enough resources or influence to leverage on others to invest in, then the tech will evolve that way.

Whatever the goal, someone needs to effort towards making that happen. In the end, it's about individuals aiming an AI towards that goal to make it accomplish that goal series of potential directions. If everyone just chills and hopes, then the masses will guide it or the resource holders with their personal interests will guide it.

That being said. If the person (or persons) have a medical issue from their experience, whatever it may be, we can expect that to be solved first.

This is very insightful. In 2023 paintings are painting themselves and books are writing themselves, to someone from the past this would be magic.

The model is a distillation of our culture. It works like a microscope, zooming into any concept or style immediately, and allowing interactive exploration. It is a trip into the mirror house of our imagination. What we see there is our own mind reflecting back.

Meanwhile the people he's talking to still think the internet is a series of tubes. They'll never be able to grasp what's about to happen. Scary they're in charge.

I think there's a number of things wrong with this reasoning. I can point them out of you ask me to. Otherwise, thank you for a long post which clearly had effort and thought put into it.

Think of it as another communication tool like the telephone. Might be sad you are not talking in person, but telephone is better than nothing.

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Holy shit I missed the start and then didn't realise it was chatgpt until seeing a reply. It makes me realise how good chatgpt is at making text. It's pretty much perfect for short passages.

That’s not really how quantum computers work. They are only faster on some specific problems, not many of which are actually useful. One of those is simulating quantum systems, but you need more qubits than you have particles in the simulation so the computer would have to be bigger than the thing you are simulating.

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> US government/military would just sit there and watch a tiny group of private citizens create something that dwarves the power of nuclear weapons.

You think way too highly of the US government. It's a bunch of old dinosaurs with their hands out for the next grift. They don't know. They don't give a shit.

That's why Russia was able, and continues to be able, to run circles around the US government's anti-psi ops efforts. Power means nothing if it's paralyzed by corruption and greed.

Think about the fights going on in Congress right now. None of that stuff means anything to anyone outside the culture warriors and the grifters.

I would focus on data science if I were you. It's a subfield of computer science which works with neural networks and machine learning. There won't be much need for web developers in a few years, but there will be a large need for data scientists.

(I believe in a hard take off, so this is just a thought experiment)

If you care about the difference between human vs AI, then it's not the product you are after, but the production, the creation of the art, right? So paying for a product doesn't matter. Instead, there could be a niche where you pay to watch an artist work and apply themselves creatively.

"man who sells milk tells the US government how close he is to creating super milk"

I believe they pay quite a decent wage in the country they outsourced this to.

is there a reddit bot that we could summon for a chatGPT summary yet?

>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.

I do agree that with the release of each new model we do inch closer to the day when the world of knowledge worker has been greatly disrupted and changed beyond recognition, but I don't think that that day is particularly close.

Knowledge work (in general) is a lot more than just crunching numbers, shuffling papers, etc. Anybody who works in a knowledge-based field (or is familiar with a knowledge-based field) knows this.

AI that's capable of fully replacing what a significant amount of knowledge workers do is still pretty far out, IMO, given how much human interaction, task variety/diversity, abstract thinking, precision, etc. is involved in much of knowledge work (not to mention legal hurdles, adoption, etc).

Will these upcoming models change knowledge work and make some white-collar jobs obsolete over the next 5-10 years? 100%. There's no point in even denying that, nor is there any point in denying that much of the rest of knowledge work will undoubtedly change over the next time span and even more so after that, but I'm pretty confident we're a ways away from it being totally disrupted by AI.

My 2 cents 😊.