Recent comments in /f/singularity

onyxengine t1_j4hagtl wrote

There’s no void to fill it’s really just a philosophy that embraces the potentiality of technology to augment human form and society. If there is a void that people are looking for transhumanism to fill its the void in our life spans. I could easily do 400 years given how much rapid and radical change we are likely To see. It would be amazing to watch us build the first underwater cities and live in one, or live on a off planet colony. Or even contribute to building them.

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EddgeLord666 t1_j4gxggh wrote

For me my purpose is living as long as I can or until I get bored, suffering as little as I can manage and having as many experiences that are new and enjoyable as possible, and shaping myself into what I perceive as the most ideal version of me. All those things would be furthered by transhumanism. If you perceive your life to have a different meaning that’s ok but these are the things that motivate me.

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oddlyspecificnumber7 OP t1_j4gqr9k wrote

Right now models seem to be getting much better when they are scaled up. They are also currently pretty dang cheap compared to any kind of real industrial infrastructure. Single and double digit millions is nothing to governments and corporations like Google. Even without architecture improvements, what does a $10 billion AI look like?

So I'd honestly not be that shocked if we have a "universal knowledge worker" type service by 2025 that offers you an "employee" with the reasoning ability of an average undergraduate but with the knowledge base of the whole internet.

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