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Isn't Replika basically a crappier offshoot of GPT2 or something like that? Like they're years behind in the LLM sense.

I belive “art” will be more present in our lives than ever before thanks to AI.

I just also believe even less money than now will go to the producers of art and even more money will go to the performers of art…

The growth in medical costs sure has been exponential for years now.

i think you will see it.

Can you imagine a chatbot made by Facebook/Meta that would lie as confidently as ChatGPT? That would be a PR nightmare for them, and that's the whole reason they don't have one in the wild. People still remember Microsoft's bot Tay experiment on Twitter.

Meta and Google have AI technology on par or superior to that of OpenAI. All top companies that do AI research publish papers, so it is not exactly a secret how advanced they are.

LeCun is not comparing ChatGPT to what is freely available to the general public, he is comparing it to what is available in the top AI research labs.

I see “getting entertained” as the wild card here you will agree :-)

It's either this or higher wages. The current minimum wages are so low that your no different than an indentured servant. Since most are not willing to pay more for a burger I'm guessing this is the future.

From this I assume that, at least, the Turing Test will be passed by 2029 (one of the main predictions of Ray Kurzweil).

Carbon is not toxic, it is just at the wrong place at the highest possible entropy state.

To reverse that entropy you need energy. And that energy has to be immensely plentiful and immensely dense.

The mass of carbon itself has absolutely no importance and whether polymerised and put back where it came from, or as biochar in the ground or even frozen at the poles will do.

So yes, AGI and fusion energy could start to do something about atmospheric carbon levels…

AGI could do something about anything.

By definition.

Singularity, the topic of this forum, means it could do anything about anything.

courtesy of chatGPT joke generator: Why did Mario still have plumbing jobs even when AI took over? Because AI couldn't fix pipes as quick as Mario could spin-jump!

Oh that’s a softball.

IPCC says so.

IPCC represents more or less ALL of the climate scientists.

Their models are public, what are your models?

When AGI reverses biological aging.

That what people said about handmade fabric or handmade shoes or handmade wine.

Now even the premium ones are made on the same machines as the rest, only with a little bit more care, and a lot more marketing…

Good to know! I'll keep an eye out.

I still think human made art, music especially included, will still have value. There is a deference between someone just generating a piece of music Vs someone spending years to learn an instrument, develop Thier vocal skills, putting thought and effort in writing songs and putting real human emotions into your work. Just like fas food didn't replace fancy restaurants AI generated music will never replace music made by humans. (Or at least the good stuff)

speak for yourself lmao

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I don’t think my grandchildren’s grandchildren will see a world with capable plumbing robots.

Yeah I think GPT3 was too expensive for them at the time. But they are making a change

The inherent problem with this argument is that you're basing much of your opposition on the fact that there's no guarantee this idea works while talking about an idea that has shown no guarantees either.

> have always known that certain technologies have the ability to completely destroy society if left uncontrolled

And here's the fun part, unlike with hardware like guns, you can't really just regulate what and how software is being used. They can't even kill piracy, for crying out loud. If Guns could be anonymously downloaded, used in the comfort of your home and still somehow magically accomplish their purposes anywhere in the world, i can tell you for sure that gun registry would be a pointless practice.

I am strongly pro regulation where it is practical. Here it's simply a waste of everyone's time. If we could stop or even just massively curtail ai misinformation with them that'd be great. But we realistically can't unless you have some really innovative and detailed proposals as to how to go about it.

You can either try shutting generative ai down completely which is impossible, or you can control it using its own abilities. Is it perfect? No. It will more or less lead to a post truth society where the internet is just a mess of well made and high quality lies. But what it may at least do is keep some small oasis' and the legal system safer.

> Then what was the point of the comment?

Because it’s worthwhile to point out the nuance of the situation: it’s not that these jobs are lost and that’s it, but rather these jobs are lost but some others are opened up elsewhere.

It’s still a net negative loss of number of jobs, yes, but it’s not as bad as it’s made out by some.

1. I don't think the probability of the worst case happening is very high at all 2)I don't live in a place that will be the most effected, which sadly are the places that contributed the least to the problem to begin with (mostly the developing world, that wouldn't have the resources to deal and adopt to the damage). So no, the odds of me or anybody that I know dying are not very high, becouse I was born in the right place. Also, if we do achieve an AGI that can do RND, I have no doubt we will develop better, more sustainable and much cleaner ways of generating power, growing food, and transporting stuff. Or if it comes much later, to the point where the worst in unavoidable, it will help us to limit the damage.

What happens when someone takes a simple screenshot of the image and spreads that around instead? What happens when there are millions of copies and screenshots of the image spreading across social media like wildfire? To the point that it becomes impossible to even find the “original” version of the image? It’s foolish to bet on some sort of metadata or other remnants to always be there to save the day. There’s no guarantee that’ll even be possible. Do you want to take the risk of finding out if your theory is actually right or wrong? The results could be catastrophic.

Regulation will have to occur at some level, and we already have historic precedent for it. Why do you think the national gun registry exists? Governments have always known that certain technologies have the ability to completely destroy society if left uncontrolled. And they act as a preventative mechanism in every single one of these cases. Why wouldn’t they do the same for AI? It’s not even in their personal best interests to let this tech run amok. It’s not in any of our best interests tbh. It’s most likely going to happen, and you can already see the seeds for government policy and collaboration being planted as we speak.