Loved this!

And it brings up an idea to me. What if our real problem with recognizing AI is just that we're not as smart as we think we are? In other words, we have a problem recognizing sentience because when we see it in something else it seems so simple.

Maybe we're just too close to the problem.

Its much small enough to run on a single graphics card

I agree with your disdain for those, but maybe banning might sound as a too extreme solution ?

Never tax innovation and human progress.

The wiser you are, the easier you get bored. It's a curse of being wiser. Oblivious people see mystery everywhere, how amazing life is that. My friend totally thinks earth is flat and often sends me some tiktok videos to prove it. I never attempt to burst his bubble, but I think people on r/singularity are somewhat better than that.

His arguments don’t hold up. For one thing we already have powerful generalist agents. Gato is one and it’s clear that advanced LLMs can do all sorts of tasks they weren’t trained to. Prediction of next token seems as benign and narrow as it can get but if you don’t think a LLM can become dangerous you aren’t thinking hard enough. CAIS also assumes people won’t build generalist agents to start with but that cat is well out of the bag. Narrow agents can also become dangerous on their own because of instrumental convergence but even if you restrict building only weak narrow agents/services the profit incentive for building general agents will be too strong since they will likely outperform narrow ones.

I wouldn’t use VR even if it was indistinguishable from the real world because I believe we should focus on making the real world a better place rather than creating a fake world and being at the mercy of whoever hosts the servers.

Not in the probability sense. Then you should "blindly trust it." As it does more good than harm.

Yes, which implies he doesn't believe his approach would work, like I said.

>Good question. If I go on the internet and find a copyrighted image and alter it to create a new image, under US law, that would still be copyright infringement.

It actually depends on the extent of the alteration and whether the result then falls into a protected class like parody

I find them interesting sometimes. Subs like this seem like the place for it.

Totally don’t agree with this proposal.

>until the generated image is as close as it can get based on what it has been trained on

This isn't the case; if it was you wouldn't be able to create novel images by combining different ideas, but of course you can

There are apparently sex toys you can get now that sync up with specific VR porn videos. But if you live with someone else you better make damn sure the door to the room is locked because due to the VR goggles and headset you likely wouldn't know anyone entered the room.

what upgrades you are thinking of? 😲

It’s not a fact, it’s just an opinion seemingly most people in this sub would agree with.

Yall better be making UPGRADES not "clones."

I don't think current computers are faster than a human brain when it comes to adhoc general intelligence.

But where they win is their networking capability to spread to work to a million nodes if needed and then they have the power to use every piece of data and knowledge available, human brains can barely retain 5% of all that.

So computer maybe slower by 2-6 seconds, but they will be the expert in every damn thing, making human experts redundant.

My hunch is our current hardware is slower than our biological hardware hence computer can be never be able to match the speed of logical processing that human brain can do.

You dont like lavender?

Proof of this would be cool.

Theres also the issue with the predictive text on Bing forgetting which side its on frequently.

Of course I know the basic concept of all those things, I’m referring mainly to how Kurzweil seems to continuously talk about how somehow computer parts as we know them today such as computer chips will be replaced with biological parts that have been harnessed for computational purposes . He went in depth talking about how the different states of the subatomic particles can be treated in the same fashion as 1s and 0s computer code.

At least this is what I gathered from reading Chapter 2 and Chapter 3. Am I right ? Correct me if I’m wrong . If I’m right , how in laymen terms could this work? All his detailed explanations on this fly over my head

I haven't read it in like a decade but quantum effects aren't relevant at that scale

I’m not an accountant but my personal cap gains sent me into a higher bracket so I had to pay more taxes. This was on Bitcoin I exchanged for a Tesla. 16k I owe in taxes now. It doesn’t really make sense to me that I owe money on cap gains at all. The government wasn’t there taking the risks with me. Only once I achieve profit do they take from me. I don’t think that’s the way to do it.

I think the kind of rolls we're starting to get in things like Automatic1111 will change the question of whether editing the images is sufficient because at a certain point it goes far beyond simply commissioning a piece. You're manually changing the work in minute detail. There's also Controlnet now, which can take the pose from another image. If I use a photo I took for the pose in the image, what then? It gets complicated.

Surprised this isn't already a thing