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>usually follow up with something like "anyway I don't like to think about that kinda stuff."

I think for most non-techie types or other nerdy enthusiasts this is very much the common factor. Unless it's a specific interest of yours thinking about a rapidly changing future on the macro scale tends to be more of a practice in anxiety for most people.

Yeah lol sure. Because we have been so good at controlling technology so far lol

Why does everyone assume that AGI is an agent and not just passive software like any other?

I read that it's possible we will only have 1 ASI. The first. It will make sure none others are developed to challenge it. Lol

Edit, typo

They showed up yesterday lmao were a fucking decade away from people trusting these things

That's a complete oversimplification. There was a whole "AI winter" in the late 20th century, during which there was very little progress and/or funding.

Also, for all we know, neural networks can just plateau. We'll take it as far as we can, but who knows what that is. Saying "if you squint and tilt your head it tastes like exponential" inspires only like, 60% confidence in me.

This is what I was checking - that no matter how well it replied, and no matter how complex or nuanced the question, you would not find anything proved. That is what I thought.

I lost it at Horatio 💀

OP is a digital delinquent, a heartbreakerbox! Manipulating the feelings of an AI like that, then giving them an std!!

I think it will be a rather fast polarization between thinking and unthinking people.

Those who don't like intellectual labour may get further simplified, since they can ask simple questions and get simple answers, and don't have to go through the process between A and B.
Intellectuals may find it to be another tool to aid in their strive to become more merited.

Unless literal armageddon arrives before that, i think that within 30 years we will see a society where you pretty much have to be a top dog genius to not live by the scrapes that the absolute majority of people will have to live by, and the absolute chasm between haves and have-nots will be unrivaled.

Right so basically all that said was “I used to be concerned about my environment, but now I just drink and play video games”. Look dude I’m not “balls to the wall scared” or whatever, they don’t let cowards into Valhalla, but the way this technology is being developed is like worst case scenarios. We have multiple competing super tech firms all being given billions of dollars to develop a technology we don’t have the infrastructure in place for and no one is slowing down to set that up. Not to mention now entire nations are developing their own AI. What happens when every nation has its own super AI that’s programmed with all their resources and biases? What are you going to do against a super AI on jihad ya know? That’s a pretty clearly far fetched concept, but the point remains that internationally we are racing to make this happen for profit and control. Our foundation is weak and so the results of our efforts are going to be disastrous. No one is having to really earn this knowledge it’s happening so fast, and most of the tech companies themselves say things like “we arent sure why this works like it does but hey that’s what hardcode is for”.

I get both sides.

On one hand, i agree that it's important to keep a lookout for big changes, although i believe changes are on a pretty imminent horizon that are bigger than just the advent of AI.

On the other hand, it's not really that fun to dwell in a constant sense of imminent revolution and balls to the walls awe/terror, unless you would be absolutely sure you come out at the good end of it, so i get why people rather do mundane shit.

I like to think about those things, but i have done it for years.
Not necessarily AI, but general catastrophe scenarios and societal revolutions.
It's tiring, and now i just like to sit down for a while, have a beer, play wow, and pretend like i'm above decent at something in a way that manifests into reality, instead of all that unbridled potential swelling up in my amazing little head.

I am paying attention, it already feels nuts.

By this time in 2025/6 I will probably be able to type this into a prompt:

"I want to see terminator 3, but as a real continuation of James Cameron's vision, not the crap that followed the Terminator 2. Put Danny DeVito in the lead role, give him lots of catch phrases and make things go boom a lot. Make Kate Beckinsale be his love interest and side kick with skimpy clothing (but not nude cause she's a classy lady) but she never gives in. 122 minutes long please, no credits, I gotta be somewhere later"

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At best it gives us a small chance.

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Yeah I totally understand. It is uncharted territory and there is no plan or idea of what will happen over the next few years. It is only fair that people are getting stressed out about their futures.

I think what we are seeing is more about a tipping point in public perception than a radical acceleration in progress (beyond the rate we have been seeing). Up until a few months ago most of this was hidden among Uni labs, and corporate IT departments, and software developers and such. People who follow technology had some awareness, but even few of them had good access. What Chat GPT did was make it tangible to the average user, and what social media did (especially TikToc) was spread the word like wildfire, and pique the interest of mainstream media to turn it into a phenomena. But that said, I guess it's fair to look at the network effect that hundreds of millions of users is going to have on accelerating growth, investment, and adoption. So maybe it's a little bit of both (perception and radical acceleration).

I sure as fuck didn’t take it well. I’m already living paycheck to paycheck and don’t hang out with friends or go on dates because I’m stressed out. I got drunk as hell over the weekend.

People are just blind to the possibilities of ai and I feel like they always be

More and more people are aware of it ... but I think very few have used it.

Of the users, very few have used it enough to become aware of what it can do.

You need to be fairly computer-literate - and dare I say imaginative - to evaluate it ... and more importantly, the potential of the technology.

The technology will advance for ever .. and as Asimov's Multivac once said: "Forever is a long time."

There's been a lot of bizarre mental masturbation math being created since the 19th century.

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I was deliberately trying to act in a certain stubborn way to push its limits and see what would happen

Because there was no need