I'm ready to join the machines physically in the same way the cyborg generals did.

I see. How many orders of magnitude more will be needed?

Edit: A quick Google search returns 10^8 over 1 hour for breaking AES 256. Right now we're at 10^2 and I don't know how long it stays coherent (looks like around 10^-4 seconds). I see what you mean now for encryption.

How much do you need for quantum chemistry simulations? Quick Googlr search says the numbers are far lower to be useful there. Maybe 10^2 or 10^3 order of magnitude?

It is not, and the number needed to do useful things like crack encryption is very far away.

But the number of qubits is increasing rapidly, I thought?

Because the current ones cost a fortune and have almost no qbits, making them useless for most problems. There are nasty scaling laws that make adding more qbits nonlinearly harder.

It really makes me depressed when I hear literally the same advice for multiple decades and people default to a just-world theory and think everything is within someone's power. I'm not harming anyone. Why can't you be happy for someone who says they'll get their romantic needs met through artificial means? How would you like it if you failed at something for decades and kept getting the exact same advice ad nauseam, which has never worked for you. Are you willing to accept that some people are going to fall through the cracks? I am and you're not and yet I'm the one who has to deal with the problem. The only reason people give these trite pieces of advice is because of their own psychological distress. If you admit that someone else is lonely through no fault of their own then you also have to admit that it can happen to you - and that is terrifying. Or you have to admit that you're a contributing factor to their loneliness.

People realized that they're no good for anything.

Hope you're doing better by now. Thanks for the discussion, take care.

Wait, why are quantum computers only possible after AGI? Researchers are doing fine without it so far, from my bystander view.

"used to monitor productivity" - this sounds horrible like the AI will score and tell management if Bob was productive I'm the past week?

Yeah it's definitely more fun to create than "monitor". There so many ways AI help us all be more creative and productive.

Yes this is one thing I'm worried about. Hopefully it doesn't happen.

A ton of AI ‘happenings’ when this should be about development

Still in the lab as far as it goes for the average consumer. But hopefully that changes over the next decade and it can result in tangible benefits for the average person.

What kind of exchanges do you have with it?

So if we augment everyone's IQ to be very high, then do you believe that there will no longer be any violence?

Also genetics

That's a difference between skynet and digital overlords?

As I understand it:

(1) current quantum computers are useless for AI so far (not enough qbits)

(2) they are useful for limited types of problems.

AI is useful for everything. So there's a lot more interest in it.

Like a lot of things, the actual tech order is probably:

high perf computers -> narrow AI -> AGI -> self replicating robots -> nanotechnology -> quantum computers

That is, we will not have large and useful quantum computers until we have nanotechnology, and we can't afford that without self replicating robots, and we can't make that without AGI, and so on.

"Prompt engineers making $350k" what?

Source on this? I Googled around and found nothing.

Its bigger than ever fam youre just not paying attention

Also cures for cancer, heart disease, and aging.

If Google are working on it, it will already be very advanced - but hidden in a back room.

They won't launch any products using the technology, just in case it disrupts their search income.

However, one day someone else will launch a related product .. and then Google will set up an emergency competitive product launch in Paris.

Google will spend at least $100 on this launch and will not actually show anything interesting.

Fusion and quantum computing are the difference between Terminator's Skynet and having new digital overlords.

because we’d call that a machine lead or main machine now, read the memo from HR

uhh dude. why not try some public places where you can hang out. I'm sure you'll meet some good people.