[stego-tech]

Hell, we haven’t even seen actual AI yet. This is all just brute-forcing likely patterns of tokens based on a corpus of existing material, not anything brand new or particularly novel. Who would’ve guessed that giving CompSci and Mathematics researchers billions of dollars in funding and millions of GPUs in parallel without the usual constraints of government research would produce the most expensive brute-force algorithms in human history?

I still believe this is going to be an embarrassing chapter of the history of AI when we actually do create it. “Humans - with the sort of hubris only a neoliberal post-war boom period could produce - honestly thought their first serious development in computing (silicon-based mircoprocessors) would lead to Artificial General Intelligence and usher in a utopia of the masses. Instead they squandered their limited resources on a Fool’s Errand, ignoring more important crises that would have far greater impacts on their immediate prosperity in the naive belief they could create a Digital God from Silicon and Electricity alone.”

[throwaway173738]

Even if we somehow create AGI it will only be used to saddle the masses, not free them. There are a lot of people with money who yearn for absolute power over everything. Replacing your capacity to think with a subscription service makes you a serf. Like Spotify, Netflix, Amazon and so on the last 20 years is full of brand new subscriptions that replace the whole concept of ownership so thoroughly that it gets erased. It pumps up the company’s valuation to do that.

[Mars008]

It's a necessary evolution step. Did you know our own ancestors had tails and grills. Do you feel ashamed?

[jijijijij]

No, but maybe pandas should. You know, evolution is mostly dead ends, literally.

[esseph]

Grills don't sound so bad!

[amanaplanacanal]

The world is definitely a better place with grills.

[braooo]

Yeh. We're still barely beyond the first few pixels that make up the bottom tail of the S-curve for autonomous type AI everyone imagines

Energy models and other substrates are going to be key, and it has nothing to do with text at all as human intelligence existed before language. It's Newspeak to run a chat bot on what is obviously a computer and call it an intelligence like a human. 1984 like dystopia crap.

[dang]

Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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