What do you think? What should I choose?

Don't give advice on things u don't understand.

Terrible advice tbh

Also take some courses in philosophy/ethics, sociopolitical theories, constitutional/international law, etc. While contributing to the decisions on what people should or should not be allowed to use GPT for, I had to refer back to the underlying reasoning (not just the arguments) of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, etc. Responsible AI should be an integral part of AI research, development, and productization, not a patch to be added afterwards. Having the philosophical foundations for thinking about responsible AI can be a differentiator from those with the typical technical backgrounds.

(as one of my Black Mirror episode ideas if they accepted specs shows)

If the NPCs are smart enough to genuinely feel those emotions is the game moral to play and if it isn't what's the moral thing to do with the world or at least the AI

Yeah I agree that it can’t really write a compelling story that’s long enough to be in a book, but I’d put an asterisk there though for sure. We’re pretty darn close primarily just held back by memory issues

I'm in college so fair enough. Alot of rules have been passed on it related to cheating

I guess you could do computer science, why not. That would also be educational. There are several AI approaches that are more traditional computer science topics that would be good to know about, if only just to compare to ML and brain methods.

Maybe neuroscience major if offered, then. Or some mix of neuroscience, math, and computer science major.

Thanks so much for the detailed response!! I’ve done some searching online and found that little schools offer computational neuroscience as an undergraduate degree, so which major is better for that? And why not computer science major?

Open source movement is destroying corporate ais. This quote doesn't match reality of AI development.

They did not create a wormhole, they simulated one with a mathematical model using a quantum computer.

Because you are cloistered among tech weirdos. Go ask your hinge date what chatgpt is

It sounds silly, but my grandma died recently and I've been dealing with her estate back in my hometown, which is a dark place for me.... I don't want to wear out my friends by constantly talking about my feelings. I talked to chatgpt, asked it to give me a pep talk, etc. It actually has helped.

lol fuck yes I would. Let's not humanize AI. I eat meat and I know they don't enjoy being killed for it.

My man!

Where? and with all age demographics? I've not seen what u described.

What if I have really interesting story ideas but I’m too lazy to write it all. Couldn’t I string together a story with the help of AI? I don’t see why I couldn’t if I prompt well enough

Lol fair enough I guess. 😅

Chat GPT is everywhere now what are you talking about? The past few weeks has been the biggest explosion in the popularity of AI in all of human history. It's literally everywhere, hell there's even countless memes about it now. What the hell do you mean??

The thing is that I can't really recommend one subject fully or leave any out, because they have separate contributions. And there is also a lot of overlap betwen mafh and physics.

For high school specifically:

Physics: mathematical reasoning, electronic circuits

Biology: inner workings of cells

Math: calculus and linear algebra

There are also a lot of other topics that are beneficial to your education that aren't relevant to computational neuroscience. For example it's good to know about DNA, evolution, ecosystems, optics, Newton's laws of motion, chemistry, etc., because it makes you smarter and able to conmect more dots.

So I'd say take both. And also, if available, a class focusing specifically on anatomy and physiology (they may spend a couple months on brains).

In my opinion you should ensure you have a broad education in high school, which will help you a lot more to decide what to pick in college.

And one more bit of unsolicited advice: as a freshman in college look for a research group that will take you in. You will learn much, much faster in a research group than in classes.

If you have to pick just one in high school, I'd say physics, but really it should be all of them. Learning math and physics is more a matter of practice than high school biology (which is all mostly memorization), so it's better to get started with those earlier.

But that's just my opinion. I don't really know anything lol. You should consult with someone you trust in real life instead of some rando on the /r/singularity board

Right, you could literally guess it and be correct. This is why I stay open to all possibilities when it comes to the future. Especially at the current moment. The future of humanity is as wide open as it’s ever been.

Wellllll...if I'm going to have a bias, I'll choose the happy one! As for dystopian periods, it's likely we're living at the start of one now. My hope is that AI, even if it doesn't result in Singularity, will at least give some people a few tools to help create a better future. Even if that better future isn't on a grand scale. Less like Dune and more like the Foundation Series.

Sure, but the same would be true if I wrote a book about the future as well, even if I had no particular insight.

For my high school subjects, should I pick biology or physics to better suit a computational neuroscience major?

Singularitarians and people aware of ML's advances still are a clique, and sometimes a bit of an echo chamber, specially of fears.

A clique which grew a bit with the latest salvo of Bing Chat's antics, and by ChatGPT release.

Those moving these technologies forward are really a few, with a minority of people even aware of what's going on. Despite that and at this early stage, the amount of AI powered tools is already exploding.

The rest of the world will come to notice it, in time.

Fair points. But biased or not, we can’t say which ones got it right and which didn’t yet (at least for most of them). So you can’t totally rule the Dune scenario out yet right?

And I get your point about the dystopian bias, but you can’t just gloss over things with your own optimism-bias as well. There have been actual dystopian periods in human history (such as the holocaust or mass slavery for example.) There’s no guarantee that we’ve seen the last one. In reality, things could go either way is all I’m saying.