Recent comments in /f/singularity

City_dave t1_j7rqeta wrote

I'm not going to do all the work for you. There is one in Europe and one in Africa and I believe a few others. What do you mean realistically live there? If you want the benefits of society you'll have to pay for them. If you want to live on your own then you are on your own. Good luck.

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Yuli-Ban t1_j7rovf7 wrote

It's one reason why I no longer consider myself a Singularitarian. I'm not at all skeptical about AGI one bit, but hot holy God damn, I've noticed techno religious thinking, blatant anti-humanity, and Rapture-like thinking around these parts.

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City_dave t1_j7rorlj wrote

The scary part is how will we know if we are receiving accurate information? At least now when we read or hear something we know what the source is and we can make judgements on reliability and bias. People are just going to implicitly trust these things and that's going to be abused.

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oOMaighOo t1_j7rn8y0 wrote

I agree

I am starting to thing that achieving AGI is wildly overrated with what we are seeing just from GPT3.5. That is already a very powerful tool and GPT4 and other more advanced LLM are just around the corner. The way it is looking right now they might just turn the world upside down in a way that very much resembles the singularity

Also, it's not just the technology that's impressive, but especially the rate of adoption. It's like everyone has been waiting for a prompt/interface that is usable by non-expert users.

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Borrowedshorts t1_j7rikxh wrote

Don't underestimate the laziness of the average person. I'm okay if they're not able to access it through a simple search site, but for those who put a little more effort into finding an API that can do the same thing, and it allows me to get ahead by doing that, I'm perfectly okay with that. If it were easily accessible by every average Joe out there, what little purpose a cover letter already serves would be entirely diluted to nothingness.

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Howtobefreaky t1_j7rhvlh wrote

This is some libertarianism-ass stuff here. It doesn't work in practice. People are not rational or inherently moral creatures. A person who decides that they have no limit and it affects others in a negative way is inherently violating another's liberty. This doesn't pass the smell test.

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AvgAIbot t1_j7rgdhv wrote

Quantum computing is a field of computing that uses the principles of quantum mechanics to build computer systems that can perform certain types of computation much faster than classical computers. In a classical computer, information is processed using bits, which can represent either a 0 or a 1. In a quantum computer, information is processed using quantum bits, or qubits, which can represent both 0 and 1 simultaneously, a property known as superposition. Additionally, qubits can also become entangled, meaning that the state of one qubit can affect the state of another, even when they are separated by large distances.

Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize AI by providing new algorithms and hardware that can solve problems that are intractable for classical computers. One of the most exciting applications of quantum computing for AI is in deep learning, where quantum algorithms can be used to train large neural networks much faster than classical algorithms. Additionally, quantum computers have the potential to accelerate other important AI tasks, such as reinforcement learning and unsupervised learning, by providing new algorithms and hardware that can process large amounts of data more efficiently.

However, it's important to note that quantum computing is still in its early stages and that many technical challenges still need to be overcome before it becomes a mainstream technology. Additionally, the development of quantum algorithms that can be used to solve real-world problems is still in its early stages, so it will be some time before we see the full potential of quantum computing for AI.

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hucktard t1_j7rg8gg wrote

How hard is hard? I mean how fast does artificial super intelligence (ASI) have to appear to be a hard takeoff? Within 1 year? 1 month? 1 day? I think its also possible to have a somewhat narrow ASI, like an AI that is super smart at most things but still very limited at other tasks that humans do. In fact I think that is the likely scenario and we actually already have very limited versions of that.

I don't think we will have a super hard takeoff, like a godlike ASI that appears almost instantly. I think the rate of advancement could be super quick though. Like we have really impressive but not completely general AI within the next year or two and then over the next few years advancements are mind blowing and world changing, but there will be no god like AI that appears overnight and suddenly rules the world.

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X-msky t1_j7rej9x wrote

It's possible we've seen a jump and it will take time for the next one, in that case we'll see many many cool stuff that uses these new capabilities far more then what we've seen, but still just rendering images, audio and text. In that case it might take a few years for the next jump, say in 2026-7 bringing us just on schedule with a final jump at 2029 as per Kurzweill predictions.

These new usages of transformers are cool, but for a jump towards hard takeoff Sam Altman think something else is needed.

Not AGI yet, but this year will be crazy and the future will get crazier, I love it...

I think we'll need something for better personalization so your AI actually has context on you.

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