I mean, they've been reporting a lot of major breakthroughs recently it's just that it takes time and steady advances (breakthroughs) for it to be ready and it's also not something 99% of people will regularly interact with. It'll be more like cloud computing and servers.

The first consumer 1TB SSD came out in 2013. Ten years later I'm considering getting a 2TB drive.

Maybe, but prophecy tends to be true in hindsight. Literally millions of books/shows/movies have created versions of history past and future and been absolutely wrong...so pointing out the handful that got it right by luck (or pointing out an obvious trend) isn't really useful to gauge progress. Again, negative visions of the future are compelling so there is a dystopia bias in literature.

I'm an optimist, so I'm hoping for the best when the Singularity hits.

Right but let’s not act like works of fiction have never predicted the future before. The Simpsons alone has made some pretty accurate predictions that panned out years after the fact. The truth is that we don’t really know what the future holds or which sci-if scenarios will actually prove prophetic.

A combination of math, neuroscience and machine learning (not computer science).

So, computational neuroscience.

I think there's a line to be drawn on terms of constant torturous fear, or panic and losing points. Like if I'm playing paintball for example, I'm afraid of getting shot because it might hurt a little, and I will lose points for my team. This level of fear is good because it drives you towards productivity. I think if an AI is sentient enough to experience fear, it deserves human rights and should be given the option to choose what games it wants to play.

Your question is reminiscent of old farmers forcing ethnic minorities to work in their fields as slaves. Without considering their emotions on the subject.

This whole AI thing got me constantly thinking about the butlerian Jihad. I don't know what the fuck Elon is doing with neuralink and I hate him as much as the next guy, but he is right about AI, the only way this AI thing benefits us on the long term is If we find a way to fuse with It. I hope one of those companies succeed in their transhumanist quest before the singularity.

The issue, really, is that dystopia and conflict make for great stories...at least in the hands of great writers. Reading about everything going well and AI resulting in a utopic future would be boring and likely not sell well. That's why we should be careful using works of fiction to inform our world view. I'm talking to myself here too...

Soon I suspect corpo executives will become political forces. Google is going to be stronger than States, it's a matter of time. Politics in general will be very important. More than today.

True. You would need power and influence to implement AGI

Politician.

Because its not wide spread like Google is, what we have are pretty much closed betas, people who arent into the Ai discussion dont care and dont go after to know what is happening

You believe too much in what you'd like to be truth.

The starting pistol was Lambda. chatGPT is a marketing fart.

As I said before, you just aren’t listening; you are expecting that every possible advancement comes to you on a golden platter…

They very much did crate a quantum wormhole….

It’s not guaranteed to be our future, correct. But there’s also no guarantee that it won’t be as well.

The 'over' in over-exaggeration is redundant.

Then you just aren’t listening….

Dune is a work of fiction. It's not a documentary. It's not real. Everything inside the book is made up. It's not our future. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Medium.com is full of the non-fiction version of this stuff along with article after article telling you how to 'make $5,000 a week writing'

People complaining that the list is too long are secretly complaining that their feeble human minds aren't durable enough and are instinctively requesting a tl;dr-ELI5 chatGPT summary of the summary of the headlines. I mean really, nobody has time to read 5000 AI/ML papers when someone could just say "shit's crazy" instead. Just post that.

The next logical question; if the NPC reacts as if it is afraid of death, even to the point of being able to describe why it is afraid of death and being able to relate to you the concept of pain and its direct connection to your actions, how do you know it/they isn't/aren't ACTUALLY feeling fear & pain?

Lmao joaquin phoenix really didn't think that out. That's one of the first questions I woulda asked the AI. "Are you talking to anyone else?"

He waits until the movies half over to finally ask that

I kind of sensed that from how idealistic and unrealistic a lot of the users here seem to be tbh… I’d say you’re far from the only one who’s like that here. I get that exact vibe from like half the users here.

That doesn’t sound like a healthy state of mind to be in honestly. It isn’t really wise to place all of your hopes and dreams on something that you can’t even predict the final result of…

Wow calls someone a bot cause they don’t cater to him then links malware?

This dude is bad at trolling. Maybe he’s a bot 😂

Well, It's not made for making conversation and people should really stop using it as such. They are ending up forcing a perfect tool to pretending to be a flawed human. They are steering it towards having pathetic conversations on uninteresting matters. Before we know it, the ai will start asking us if we've seen the game... and that's not a good thing.