Speedrunners gotta show proof that their world is not created by AI soon lol

This is something the majority of people seem to have trouble understanding but then again we've been selling each other stuff for so long it's practically embedded in our DNA so I get why ppl can't imagine a world without currency

Blind people can still type. Check out screen readers. I can type up to 180wpm on a physical keyboard

This is assuming the elites are willing to let capitalism die.

I think end goal here is to generate full games by AI (hopefully by 2030). Imagine creating a game just by prompts and then fine tuning. I'm sure it'll still take teams and many man hours, though.

My money is on Gato being or being closer to "true" AGI than anything else at the time it's made public.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they had one that was far better

in chess GPT3 will make illegal moves but GPT4 will make legal but poor moves. although I do think a new architectural advance is needed

They could have one if they want. You only need 40M dollars to buy a thousand A100s. They might already have them. Or they could be paying OpenAI to help.

Palantir can predict protests based on social media. I'm sure it works a bit like Bing. You say 'Hi, what is up?' It says 'There could be a riot in X soon.' Replace social media with reports from commanders in the field and you can do something similar. The system can say 'I think there's a major enemy offensive in Y'.

My friend Fred says that the rules don't apply to the military. They can do whatever they want whereas civilians have to worry about regulations. But that has never stopped anyone for long.

There is obviously some kind of reasoning behind it, as it can sometimes even explain unique jokes.

However, despite almost endless data it cannot follow the rules of a text based game such as chess. As such, it still seems to lack the ability to connect words to space, which is vital to numerous tasks, even text based ones.

The future of NPCs specifically is going to be wild. The designers will only need a book of world lore and a background bio for each character, and the NPCs will be able to have rich, meaningful, unscripted conversations with the player.

On the other hand, I can envision myself becoming like the parents of the 90s, fretting over the influence of violent videogames and modern technology. For example, when GTA6 comes out and someone mods it to have AI-powered NPCs who literally beg and plead for their lives, are we sure that 14 year olds mowing them down with virtual AR15s won't be psychologically impacted in some way?

It also occurred to me that online games with a small userbase will probably 'fluff the numbers' with AI bot players who are indistinguishable from human players, the same way social networks and dating apps use bots to create the impression of a bustling community.

I believe the government is stupid, yes, and is in fact doing exactly this. It is possible they will lose their sovereignty as a side effect.

Lol. You think the government is gonna let American corporations make agi right under their nose without getting a piece? It’s the key to winning the next great conflict and they will leave no stone unturned to try and get there first. You are incredibly naive.

Who knows but usually for NASA and the Military it’s the exact opposite at least for hardware in the field, because often the hardware needs to be battle hardened, or in the case of NASA, radiation hardened.

I know for one NASA often uses very old chips in space, like special versions of 1980s/1990s CPUs because they are less vulnerable to cosmic/solar radiation, extreme temperatures, etc.

There are a few problems that AI could solve for the defense/intel community. Off the top of my head:

- Surveillance. Drones and cameras are cheap, but contractors with security clearances to watch them are not. AI could monitor video streams 24/7, providing routine summaries of what they observed, or contacting a human supervisor when they spot something important.

- Summarizing intel. The US is monitoring countless phone lines and digital transmissions, but nobody can possibly read all of it. AI like ChatGPT could produce quick, condensed summaries of each transmission. Think of the new Bing AI TEAMS meeting summary feature that Microsoft announced, only instead of summarizing your company's Monday morning budget meeting, it's summarizing key points from a PLA defense attache's call back to Beijing.

- Information Warfare. Imagine an ISIS cell in Africa receives a videocall from their leader in Somalia, instructing the terrorists to drive with all their weapons and supplies to a set of coordinates in the middle of the desert. The terrorists load up a truck and roll straight into the open arms of USSOCOM. The video of their leader was a deepfake from previously intercepted communications.

- Decoys. In a Sino-American war, the Chinese will rely heavily on precision-guided munitions and electronic warfare to target allied forces. We can easily imagine the PLA honing in on radio transmissions, cellphone signals, and other electromagnetic emissions to target their missile strikes (see: Ukrainian HIMARS finding Russian barracks). With AI chatbots, the US could have decoy 'chatterboxes' which roleplay as a cluster of US forces (a squad of Marines, or a USN vessel, etc). Each box could generate simulated radio conversations, text message arguments, and satphone strategy debates, all subject to PLA intercept. Every time the Chinese fall for a decoy, that's one less missile hitting genuine US assetes.

- Admin. The world's most powerful military spends roughly 20% of its time doing legitimate military work stuff and the other 80% of the time fiddling over a Powerpoint slide to brief the work to their boss, or writing performance reviews for subordinates, et cetera. If AI can cut that admin time down by even a fraction, it would free up millions of manhours to do more important things.

Personally I would be stunned if the first four aren't already being developed (DAPRA, NSA, DIA, etc) or even being prepared for active use. The last item is a bit of a joke though: the military will be stuck fiddling over Powerpoint slides until we're fighting with X-wings and laser blasters.

So for the last sentence you need to provide some evidence. If the lizard people are running the government in secret, how do you know?

For the rest, sure. Nothing is magic about llms, the government could replicate the effort with a skunkworks.

Hassabis mentioned the scaling thing something like six-ish months ago, which as far as I understood meant they were working on a sort of Gato-2, but it takes time. It's worth a reminder we still haven't seen GPT4, though it wouldn't surprise me to see both GPT4 and Gato 2 this year (in pointed fact that's my default).

Please do it for aoe Microsoft.

How you typing? Voice to text? Also you can play last of us part 2, there is a option for blind persons.

You act like these efforts are not thoroughly infiltrated and supervised by the DOD already. A handful of discrete government liaisons supervising the efforts of these companies and harvesting their research in the name of national security has got to be a given. It’s not a stretch that there’s a lab with incredibly competent government scientists working to integrate this research that has already far surpassed what is public knowledge.

Dude you can go look at deepmind papers and count names. Or try to write the smallest change to current SoTA AI code. A few geniuses will not cut it.

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That intelligence came as a surprise. No one expected LLMs to bring us the closest to AGI we've ever been.

Right. And the issue with their position is that while it's possible for the government to have amazing things that are a secret, in reality most of the few secrets they did create leaked all over the place. For example the F-117 - tons of mentions in the press long before unveiling.

It's telling there are no mentions of anything indicating an AGI.

No. They absolutely have special use AIs but they are not in the cutting edge of computer research. One big reason is that the large creative tech populations are not good at rigid hierarchy and rules. For example, the FBI and DOD are hard up for coders because they refuse to hire anyone that has ever smoked weed.