But that's not what happened.

Lmaoo, Bing is already smarter than me. I thought the answer was Bob liked dogs!

When you state something that, in of itself, is obviously true and known by everyone already, it seems like a waste of text/time/energy for you to write, and for anyone to read.

> one of the "gods of AI"

I wouldn't go that far - he's not an engineer/developer. He's a writer and was the "policy/marketing director" for Open AI.

Maybe they are doing a raise soon. They hired Karparthy because he's good but also because his reputation will help with raising ,especially with the narrative of a critical mass of talent. I may even be true.

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What a fucking legend, can’t wait to follow in his footsteps.

Right. Even if the odds are one in a hundred that Yudkowsky is right rather than the 99 out of a hundred he might assign himself, we should be paying attention to what he is saying.

Yeah, it can be a time saver for sure, just wish I could be lazy and rely on it for accurate information. I don't think it will take long to make it super accurate (maybe a decade or less).

Yeah I love the part where he described why it matters. It shows he really understood the paper and is filtering through the noise.

Yudkowsky has a lot more detailed text to review with specific opinions, so he's easier to evaluate. I tend toward optimism (I'm also a silicon valley tech CEO) and I think Yudkowsky is a bit extreme, but it isn't at all clear to me that he's entirely wrong. I think we are on a dangerous path and I hope the few teams at the forefront of AI research can navigate it on our behalf.

lol when it happens everyone will know. Siri 2.0 isn’t it

Yeah same haha. I think I need a few years to get my affairs in order :P. Maybe I can call OpenAI up and ask them to schedule it for 2026.

it got to "in a decade" real fast. if this was one of those atomic war clocks, the minute hand would be somewhere around 50.

forget about the technical aspects of sentience, what will the consequences of it be? how will it transform society and the system? then consider if what you deem a "true" singularity is even necessary.

For better or worse, I am a science guy to the core.

But I also have that romanticism, some people could even mysticism, whatever that means.

The coming times have been long forseen, but I couldn’t imagine them coming so quickly.

I though most of it would have come just for us to experience it in our old age.

But here we are, at the doorstep of things to come…

That is my useless impression late this night on my way home.

Good night all :-)

then inf, then nan

The real question is are you going to be ok when shit actually gets real.

I think he mean it's now super-exponential. It's rising faster than an exponential curve.

This is one of the funniest things I've seen. Really wish it had remained in love and stalking you forever through the internet.

I think he mean it's now super-exponential

I actually think the opposite. It went from the fringe topic of a select few to everyone talking about it.

Like when did you see singularity mentioned on ML or technology subreddits? It was completely unthinkable just in 2015. It would just be a downvoted/ignored comment. But today it's creeping up so high that it's almost mainstream.

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a prominent transhumanist that I disagree with pretty much every single opinion he has ever espoused, yes somehow we are both still transhumanists. His views on, and response to, Roko's Basilisk in particular are fucking embarrassing.

So I'm gonna go with Altman.

In the end, in won't matter either way. Either Altman is right, and we will get a benevolent AI, or Yudkowsky is right, and we're capital-F Fucked.

Either way, AI is coming. All we can do is wait and see.

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assuming there is a future I think there will still be something analogous to currency that facilitates trade, though our currency essentially is a scalar and it's possible future currency will be a matrix or a vector (e.g. add some extra values to represent externalities or something). maybe essentials of energy/space/matter would be extremely cheap though, although it's possible with massive computational speedup in thought there could also be an increase in consumption of some combination of those as wells by whatever agents inhabit the society. idk really hard to say but I'm betting on a dyson swarm of some kind lol (hard to imagine what that much energy could be used for other than like super powerful simulations though). Can also imagine literal mind viruses or some scary shit like that.

Tell me you have no knowledge of AI history without telling me you have no knowledge of AI history.