By decades, I mean more than 5 or 6 decades away which I feel it is not given the rapid progress. 1 or 2 decades is still reasonable.

I think it’s still reasonable to say agi is decades away , I think the right comparison for someone saying chatgpt is agi, would be someone saying agi is still centuries away

I wonder how many Chinese people are thinking about Universal Basic Income. The fact is, it's not a feasible option. Governments can't have more money than what is generated from workers' income, and the majority of taxes come from the middle class. If that source of revenue disappears, there will be no money to provide UBI. Additionally, with only 50% labor participation in the US, replacing it with UBI would be unrealistic. The implementation of UBI would cause widespread inflation. The effects of even six months of UBI can already be seen in the world, as it nearly led to the collapse of society and the outbreak of World War III. It is more sensible to provide people with simple jobs and pay them over the minimum wage, with added taxes. This way, they will still be productive and generate more tax revenue. The government's purpose is not to give out money, but to collect taxes. This will never change. People will still be required to work and be taxed, and the idea of retirement may be eliminated. In the future, individuals may even be asked to self-delete by AI. its not that they can figure out another way, it is that they like having human slaves more than machines slaves. machine do not suffer.

Are you guys freaking kidding? AI revolution will be the most incredible thing that happened to humankind. Tech breakthroughs growing exponentially and improving quality of life and economy drastically. But it is the end of capitalism for sure because the income generated by the machine must go to the humans.

I'm doing pre-workout for the next life if you will.

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I have a few guns, food stores, and toilet paper leftover from COVID prepping. That's the best I can do. If AI decides to revolt I figure I'm screwed regardless. All I can meaningfully do is prep my soul to meet my Maker at that point.

Realistically it would be closer to The Road than Mad Max honestly, Mad Max is too glamorous.

Personally, I wouldn't mind being the guitar guy on top of the car if that happens

Preppers will be robbed if doomsday came.

entirely depends on having a good discriminator, look at the work going on in stable diffusion where outputs of the model are fed back in for further fine tuning.

or some of the work on doing automated dataset creation for fine tunes by prompting the model in a certain ways so it 'self corrects' and then collect the output and use [correction + initial question] for fine tunes.

I don't have time or funds to prep, but I do have time to pay attention to who around me is prepping.

The paper that you linked was withdrawn for severe technical flaws.

However, assuming that AI can modify source code, this is still a far cry from recursive self improvement.

What is needed to improve AI are new, novel ideas, not source code modification. The source code will be the medium through which these ideas are implemented, but simply modifying it is not sufficient to make actual improvements.

I’m working on being mortgage free and financially independent. Also building on my own AI helper. Both very slow going. I have an emergency kit with 3 days of food and a couple of guns tucked away. Who knows what the future holds.

Most likely just gonna off myself in that scenario, not gonna lie. I don't really fancy any Mad Max or Road type shit.

In this case, even if we had the model and whatever software is needed to run it, we probably wouldn't have the VRAM. I don't think regular consumers can get that much VRAM in the cloud right now either.

Yea the inequality will be more extreme than ever. Don’t be on the wrong sude

"as cope for their lives, lives that they are not very happy with." I admit im one of them. But also because i just find the concept so freaking interesting, specially when we combine generative AI with VR tech and photoreal UE5 graphics, that has potential to be virtual drug.

We're almost in World War 3, we've got an economic crisis, global warming, the climate is going crazy and you're ***** about AI because you saw a chatbot?
Man get out of the basement.

prep as in mentally prepare myself for anything life throws at me. I understand that we live in the most rediculous time and anything can happen. Just try to build a close network of trusting people, make money, try to get property, ride the wave.

>Or governments not providing UBI once more than 20% of jobs are replaced.

Government and AI company provides UBI, but it's just enough for basic needs. People rent houses from landlords or companies, buy cultured meat, canned food, you pay internet bill but you don't own the device, you pay for netflix but you don't own the TV.

In the end, you own nothing and you'll be happy

The company will own your life

> Give me a link to download your model.ckpt that could be run on a locally hosted instance of you

No, I'm not prepping. I don't have the energy for all that malarkey. I'm just gonna die in the chaos, get some rest finally.

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hah…. there was a similar post to this one in r/aliens today, due to the UAPs being shot down by f-22 jets in alaska and the yukon today and yesterday.

hope it’s just a coincidence, rather than the collective nerd umwelt predicting the apocolypse