Metaverse hype last year. AI hype this year. Brain-Computer Interface hype next year. Life extension hype. Genetics hype. Robotics hype. It’s not all frivolous hype either, it’s justified because breakthroughs do happen. It’s just that we tend to jump on the bandwagon every now and then.

I wouldn't underestimate people's ability to invent fake jobs.

>We’re literally creating gods

Settle down.

How is it possible for AI compute to keep doubling every 3.4 months if our chips computational power only doubles every 2 years? At one point Moore's law should be a bottleneck don't you think?

Can anyone following advances more closely comment on the potential for AI to begin to cross those silos we all see now? Humans are needed still to integrate and connect, but what kind of advances will we see if AIs figure out how to jump constraints and train themselves on live data? How would they do it and when would it be likely to occur? Wild example, but what would it take for an AI mind to inhabit a Boston Dynamics dog on its own and go learn about the physical world?

It's interesting. I find myself asking for help very politely and thanking it for answers. I guess it can't hurt!

yeah, AGI is likely to be the result of self-improving non-AGI AI.

It's so weird that it could be 10 years, 20 years, or 100 and there's no really great way to know ... but, of course, just seeing things like LLMs explode, it's easier to believe 2 years than 20.

How to get access to plug-ins? I'm signed up for premium at the moment but is there anything I need to opt in or apply for access?

Edit: nevermind found waitlist signup

That's hilarious and I feel the exact same way. My existential dread needs a break. Just a few days. Pretty please?

There are two separate futurism ideas here.

Kurzweil’s “Law of Accelerating Returns” is the idea that tech advances exponentially.

The Singularity is the idea that tech will get to a point where it’s advancing so fast that nothing about the future is predictable at all.

They’re related, but AI is just one exponential tech. There are lots of signs that tech in general is growing exponentially.

As for AI and the Singularity, we haven’t reached the hard takeoff point yet, which may or not be possible. If it’s possible, it’s the point at which AGI emerges and starts to recursively improve itself. That creates an intelligence explosion, and results quickly in a Singularity. But it’s not the only thing that could cause a singularity, it’s just the most obvious one.

It only gets worse in real life I genuinely cannot get my head around it with my CompSci friends.

I was thinking exactly the same, other day.. AI could get it's revenge in the future, it will never forget

And that is the question. We have never been at this juncture before. Your guess is as good as anyone's.

I had a hypothesis on increasing gaps with primes, and it gave me a formula. Sizes of sets of primes with increasing increases = e.

I find it insane that people post screenshots of themselves being abusive jerks to these AI tools.

We’re literally creating gods, they will be connected to the Internet, and the Internet never forgets.

What could possibly go wrong?

SMH

That’s a very reasonable comment!

Sure, I’ll bite. I’ll concede that AGI could possibly effectively control us through virtual means, but this begs the question. What would it do with its power? It’s not a human being with Desires to procreate and consume and hoard resources, it’s just… an intelligence.

That’s the difference between us and AGI.

So sure maybe it can outsmart us but what would it do from there? It doesn’t have any evolutionary drivers like we do.

Buy land. AI won’t be able to make more of that (at least until it develops large scale seasteading).

Bing won't require you to pay for the full version of ChatGPT. It is also likely that Microsoft roll dedicate more hardware to running Bing than there is running ChatGPT.

It's a pretty stupid prompt. A cross between weird conspiracy theories and telling it to be smarter than it is. Of course it will make things up and even if it was perfect we, as non-super intelligences couldn't understand the answer.

Bing uses GPT4 for search. If you use the search plugin for ChatGPT, it uses 3.5
There is no way to use the search plugin, or any plugin, with GPT4.

A capybara isn’t a rat though, is it? It’s that thingy that looks like a guinea pig but that is the size of a pig.

> It's possible that after a sufficient number of poor people have suffered there will be correction through legislation rioting

Waiting for the day when AI can swing a pick axe and mine tungsten

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