Recent comments in /f/singularity

FridgeParade t1_j9lkb8k wrote

Stop anthropomorphizing an algorithm, its not sentient, its basically very complex multivariate regression statistics used to find patterns in information and text and used to generate new random text. Text which is only correct most of the time because the information patterns it found are obvious enough.

There is no thought process going on, its not actively reasoning about anything.

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genericrich t1_j9ljoto wrote

You're living in a dream world if you don't think the US would act to prevent China from exploiting an AGI against them. Which it would, if it had one. (Just like the USA would, if it had one).

UBI? Please. Never gonna happen. Listen to the GOP nutjobs whine about "communism" in the USA now, for basic shit like social security and medicare. They would have aneurysms if someone was legit pushing UBI.

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turnpikelad t1_j9liaid wrote

My understanding is that there's a view that although AGI will be produced by human engineering, ASI would be produced iteratively by the AGI. So, when we talk about engineering projects to create intelligence, the goal of those projects is simply AGI - or at least, that's the point at which the further progress of tech is unpredictable enough not to be on anyone's balance sheet. So all these labs - OpenAI, Deepmind - say that they are working towards AGI, and that's the term that gets used when talking about those projects and their progress in the media.

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rand3289 t1_j9li043 wrote

In this case driving was a toy example.

In the future we might use this technology for autonomous driving or we might not due to say problems with explain-ability . Too early to tell.

This might be good or bad news for AI in general since this is supporting a technology very different than current statistics-based narrow AI. Biologically inspired NNs could take off and people could slow the narrow AI research which is also very important.

In my opinion Narrow AI will always out-compete General AI on some specific tasks.

Think of this as internal combustion vs steam... it did a lot of good for the engines but almost eliminated the research on steam engines. Whereas steam turbines are still used at the power plants and this research could be useful.

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just-a-dreamer- t1_j9ldmqo wrote

So what, what is the US gonna do if China gets ahead? And vice versa?

You can't nuke China without ending the world. And China can't nuke the US. It has always been this way for 50 years.

The only solution to internal trouble is the eradication of capitalism. That is a good thing we all should work towards anyway in human evolution.

What did the government do during Covid Lockdowns? Handed out cash left and right. People remember. The next sucessfull political party will demand UBI then.

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just_thisGuy t1_j9lctav wrote

I’d say AI might be the only way to solve nuclear weapons risk. Without AI we’d probably end up using them sooner or later. In the span of a few hundred years probably almost guaranteed, the only thing that will stop it is some other very advanced technology and AI.

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