Recent comments in /f/singularity

korkkis t1_j918fwv wrote

Reply to comment by zomboscott in Microsoft Killed Bing by Neurogence

The code AI doesn’t at the moment work if it’s complex, as it uses classes that don’t even exist. It’d need to understand that what exist and use those or write the extra classes

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korkkis t1_j9186yj wrote

Reply to Microsoft Killed Bing by Neurogence

It’s not ”meaningless experiments”, you need to respect the findings others did. The product is in alpha phase and thus of course they’ll collect and adjust it accordingly based on the feedback

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turnip_burrito t1_j90rf1d wrote

Reply to comment by Sharp_Soup_2353 in I’m gradually becoming a doomer. by Sharp_Soup_2353

Basically, in my eyes the US government has dropped the ball with respect to AI. They for some reason are not competing with corporations for AI researchers, which means that instead, researchers are being pulled into tech companies with a profit motive. Ground-breaking AI research papers come from people working at either Google AI Research, DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, and there may be a couple others I'm forgetting. There are also researchers at universities mixed in with the authors on those papers often, but even so. For example: the 2017 transformer architecture (the T in GPT) for example was published by then-Google employees (and one University of Toronto guy who was working at Google).

The result is AI for profit. What better way to misalign our AI than using it for money? This accelerates AI development but creates larger existential risk.

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turnip_burrito t1_j90q5t3 wrote

Reply to comment by Sharp_Soup_2353 in I’m gradually becoming a doomer. by Sharp_Soup_2353

Humanity needs someone to control the transition singularity so that it has an increased likelihood of turning out in our favor. I'd rather it be OpenAI than many other groups of people.

And it goes without saying that not attempting to control the transition to singularity will have wildly more unpredictable results (which we all may like to avoid).

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freeman_joe t1_j90pioh wrote

Reply to comment by IonizingKoala in Microsoft Killed Bing by Neurogence

We have access to quantum computers already we call them human brains. We can see nature solved that it is only matter of time when we do the same with tech and it will be available for home usage.

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Stippes t1_j90my8h wrote

Reply to I am a young teenager, and I have just learned about the concept of reaching singularity. What is the point of living anymore when this happens. by FriendlyDetective319

That's pretty much the same discussion that was had in philosophy in the early 20th century.

Since then, we've come from nihilism (your point of view) to existentialism (make your own point to stay alive) to absurdism (there isn't any point, but we can enjoy life despite that). (All this is very simplified)

Seek solace in the answers that were given before.

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Sharp_Soup_2353 OP t1_j90mq8e wrote

Reply to comment by Desperate_Food7354 in I’m gradually becoming a doomer. by Sharp_Soup_2353

i’m not saying that we were left to oblivion or we are going to be left to dust and rote, what I’m saying is maybe nothing will change about our society (which got shit tons of issues) what we need is an equal benefit to all humans in general regardless of their class and status so we can all prosper and progress towards a better future rather than getting a smart chatbot and an incredible AI image generator with a device that is 1000 fold stronger than the current most powerful computer, to put it simply we need to advance as society and a civilization instead of having cool tech.

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