Recent comments in /f/singularity

Redditing-Dutchman t1_j6k0eyd wrote

Athletes and dancers for example will always be there. What would even be the point of watching a robot run the 100 meter for example? If you already make robot legs better than human legs then why not just use wheels. Not everything makes sense to automate. Humans will always want to see what humans can do, in sports and theater and such. A basketball team of robots would become a competition of which team has the best programmers, not which players have the best skill. It would be fun to watch once but then I want to see human players again.

8

GPT-5entient t1_j6k0diy wrote

>If they will try to protect jobs

They might, but it will definitely not be slowing down the development. AGI is the invention to end all inventions and if the US is the first one to develop it that will give it a massive eg up (to put it extremely mildly). Imagine weapons development in an AGI scenario - it would make enemy armies look like Roman legions in comparison. It is fucking scary but if we don't get there first someone else will - most likely China and that would be much scarier.

I would like to see a CHIPS act like development or ideally a massive, CERN-like, inter-government project to develop AGI the "right way". Pour trillions into it if necessary.

1

drekmonger t1_j6k00gx wrote

Russia's government is a mafia. Corruption is the point. They're good at spreading that corruption.

The US government is divided, not just politically, but between career individuals who generally believe in the institutions they serve and out right crooks, usually politically appointed, nowadays often in Putin's pocket, or in the pocket of someone in Putin's pocket.

3

madvanillin t1_j6jzt1o wrote

Reply to A.I TIMELINE by Aze_Avora

I would enjoy a chapter on AI gradually replacing humans in government. It will likely start with bureaucratic red tape functions like approving VA and SS applications for benefits, processing immigration paperwork, streamlining processes and removing human prejudice and capriciousness from these processes. With an AI-run IRS, tax evasion should become impossible. ASI will eventually need to replace representative democracy, as it will hopefully be immune to corruption and political gamesmanship. It will replace courts and judges, and make government fair, consistent, agile, and responsive.

7

GPT-5entient t1_j6jz9w0 wrote

LLMs are still incredibly limited and ONLY operating on text. AGI would be an independent agent that would be able to replace any human task independently. We're still quite far from it. There are whole classes of problems where a 5 year old performs better than ChatGPT.

2

GPT-5entient t1_j6jyg0p wrote

I don't disagree with this sentiment, but it is funny to mention Russia on one hand and then US government being corrupt and incompetent. Compared to Russia our government is highly competent in every way and not corrupt at all.

2

GPT-5entient t1_j6jxt6a wrote

Strongly agree. I think there should be a new Manhattan Project or CERT like undertaking to develop AGI. It also should be international (at least within the Western sphere - NATO and friends). Private companies can and should participate, but the tech will have to be public so that no public company can profit from it by itself.

2

SemperExcelsior t1_j6jxk36 wrote

Reply to A.I TIMELINE by Aze_Avora

Before we get to an AGI, we'll see a huge increase in drug development, medical advancements, disease prevention, and the extension of human life. I'd also expect a similar trajectory for technology and innovation in general (ie. housing, construction, transport, energy, communication, quantum computation, etc). If ai can speed up the process of solving the energy crises and resolving resource issues (food, water, pollution, global warming), it'll continue to accelerate right up until the first AGI. Of course, if automated weapons tech gets away from us, we may never reach AGI.

15