[Razengan]

Barely 50 years ago computers used to cost a million dollars and were less powerful than your phone's SIM card.

> GPT-4 training was what, $100M? GPT-5/Opus-4 class probably $1B+?

Your brain? Basically free *(not counting time + food)

Disruption in this space will come from whomever can replicate analog neurons in a better way.

Maybe one day you'll be able to Matrix information directly into your brain and know kung-fu in an instant. Maybe we'll even have a Mentat social class.

[jcranmer]

> Barely 50 years ago computers used to cost a million dollars and were less powerful than your phone's SIM card.

Fifty years ago, we were starting to see the very beginning of workstations (not quite the personal computer of modern days), something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto, which cost ~$100k in inflation-adjusted money.

[psychoslave]

Yeah, no hate for kung fu here, but maybe learning to better communicate together, act in ways that allows everyone to thrive in harmony and spread peace among all humanity might be a better thing to start incorporating, might not it?

[Razengan]

It's literally a scene from The Matrix.

[psychoslave]

Yes it is. We can also maybe agree that the comment wasn't implying otherwise?

I mean, it's like the djin giving you three whishes, and not a single character will ask "what's the two best wishes I can do to (ensure mankind will reach perpetually best peaceful harmonious flourishing social dynamics forever| whatever goal the character might have as greatest hope)". When you have a instant perfect knowledge acquisition machine at disposal, the first thing to obviously understand is what the most important things to do to reach your goal.

The film didn't mention everything Neo learned like that though, just that he accumulate straight forward for many hours. Wouldn't be an action movie, certainly you would hope the character first words after such an impressive feat wouldn't be "I know kung fu".