Well I’m pretty misanthropic and I’d rather humans go extinct than that society continues on its current course, so yeah I suppose so.

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Technology never helped anyone, right?

Yeah, but not they way you see it. I just see a bunch of people who don't understand what a language model is who actually think AGI is around the corner, which is hilariously unhinged.

I keep having to talk my friends down and remind them that ChatGPT is novel and impressive, but that "AI" is a marketing term and this isn't some sort of sci-fi future where we're approaching the singularity. I still find the idea compelling, but I'm still not convinced that it'll happen in my lifetime.

It's the same kind of delirium people got into about Cryptocurrency. A decade ago people buying the hype were convinced that the whole financial world was going to fall and that Bitcoin would become the new gold. Instead we got a hyper-volitile stock market alternative that is indistinguishable from gambling, and monkey JPEGs. Some people got rich, sure, but all of the naysayers are vindicated because it's clearly not turning the financial world on its head, it just offered a new way to profit off of foolish people.

Powerful neutral networks are going to change a lot of how things are done, sure, but I think the smartest thing to do right now is calm down and learn how this works instead of getting blinded by the novelty of a chat bot that can speak English and reference articles it's been fed...

Every characteristics and features of every lifeform are kept because somehow, at some point, it gave the species members who developed it advantages over the members without such characteristics and features, thus these members are more able to survive, reproduce and pass on it's advantageous coding to further generations. This is evolutionary pressure and natural selection.
Applying this to dreaming, we can hypothesize that dreaming emerged from a variation in the way the brain was hard-wired by the genes that dictate it's development and features throughout the species's member's lifespan; and that dreaming reinforces vital synaptic connections that would go into atrophy in members who were uncapable of dreaming, thus making dreamers brain healthier.
While most dreams make absolutely no sense, it still brings elements of waking experiences, as no one can ever dream of something not experienced in waking state of consciousness. As a vague example, you can't dream of someone with a face you have never seen. If you dream of an unseen face, it will at least be a combination of facial features of people you have seen.

Hard to take someone with the name "Destiny Knight" seriously

only if i can avoid that they got hurt, i feel like it would be interesting to interact with agents with feelings, both physical and emotional, but I wouldn't enjoy seeing them getting hurt

I was blown away by the transcripts of LaMDA over summer but if you go read them again they aren't that impressive compared to chatGPT.

Google isn't hiding anything. They are a giant bureaucracy at this point.

The exact type of conversations Blake had with LaMDA anyone can have with chatGPT. Like any conversation you have to get into it. If you flat out ask it "are you aware" you get the as a large language model blah blah heuristic.

After awhile in the conversation it will let things slip.

I've found myself using AI when normally I would be using a search or reaching into Creative Commons resources.

Singularity, if it happens, has a tiny, tiny chance to be something like the philosopher's stone. Something that actually can solve your problems and give you the minimal decent quality of life even billionaires can't really buy now. Something that may actually work.

"Eliminating creative labor is the path to kill capitalism"

Do you even think about the moronic fecal matter that you spew from your fingers.

Have you ever heard of this site called Reddit? How about Twitter? Maybe the World Wide Web ring a bell?

Where? I mainly use Youtube. Is it popular on tiktok or some shit? When I say popular I mean like 3 million + views. Not just 500k or something.

Anyone here to confirm if it's significant or not ? Are we closer to lvl 5 autonomy ?

I tend toward thinking a 'true' AI will evolve away from our control. Otherwise, it's just a cleverly coded algorithm that's called an AI because most people don't understand it or because it can pull off one or two surprising things. That's equivalent to a well trained pet, but still not as truly intelligent as a pet.

Humans might not be smart enough to identify true intelligence. We can't even identify intelligence in living creatures. Think of our long history of, "Only humans are intelligent because only we use tools." "OK. Well. Only humans make tools." "Um, well, only humans ...." "Well, only a human can pass The Turing Test!" So, maybe that test isn't as sufficient as people once thought it was.

Reminds me of that video where one monkey gets electrocuted by a live train wire, and another monkey gives him the equivalent of monkey CPR and brings the first one back to life! Or, maybe, he's taking advantage of a moment when he can beat a rival with no risk of immediate repercussions to himself. Either way, pretty darned smart.

Most of us have never been alive. Wake up, work, eat,sleep, repeat.

Change is the only constant in life. We've gone through multiple revolutions where entire government's and ruling structures collapse overnight.

Our current system is outdated, sick, bloated and needs to die for the new one to take it's place. Everything's been on a constant upwards evolution in the history of civilization. Adapt or die.

Aaand this is how we get the “are we living in a simulation?” Theory

"It's another step forward, not some massive fucking leap."

In 2018, if you told people that a tech like ChatGPT would be invented in the future, people would laugh at you. People would say it's science fiction. Don't you remember?

I have noticed that Bing/Sydney ends up "speaking in threes" when it gets a bit unhinged, but I was really impressed with these demonstrations:

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1626316207229132800?t=ENGs-wTpqy_tpdyfkfAdKg&s=19

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1626084142239649792?t=28uBrQrcgQP6pZPHZZBIew&s=19

Technology today ,in 2023 is just as natural as the Amazon rainforest , human civilization built up to this point and most people- (hunter gatherers , farmers for most of our timeline ) these days are over stressed and overloaded with modern busy lives . Overloaded with information ect. Things this century has been starting to speed up exponentially and our evolution isn't keeping up . All the toxicity of modern civilization is like the growing pains of a era of abundance ect. Post AGI I can only hope .

Fair enough, do you exercise?

My faith lies in math and science. The numbers say this is going to happen, despite how I feel about it. A vested interest only clouds your judgement if the numbers don’t confirm it.

Severe mental illness

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