Are you lost? This is r/singularity.

I'd be disappointed if the plurality of the community here did not favor at least some forms of eugenics, considering all the aspiring post-humans and trans humanists we have around. Even with the influx of fresh faces post ChatGPT.

But the singularity is not dependent on nick.

Everything is political. ESPECIALLY THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF HUMANITY & SENTIENCE.

this is relevent to the singularity community! nick bostrom is an influential figure. this is a big scandal, it makes sense to have a post about this

i guess the mods are playing it safe. trying to avoid politics. but u know, sometimes politics invades a community. thats life.

edit: for the record, i think eugenics is bad, and saying the n-word is bad, altho i think genetic modification/gene therapy might be useful someday for humans as long as it’s used for diseases that are universally seen as bad (as opposed to things like autism & down syndrome that have some defenders).

I'm not surprised that some dipshit named "Cult_of_chad" would be pro-eugenics.

I didn't read the actually study yet, but based on the article and my understanding of the field, this doesn't really seem that significant. it's just mimicking action potentials, the way an electric signal is transmitted chemically along a neuron, while the current understanding of the brain suggests that most of the information processing ability of neurons comes from the receptor-neurotransmitter balances and receptor regulation at the synapses, and how that affects network organization. those mechanisms are what allow learning, like back propogation or similar algorithms in NNs.

Edit: fixed "feels" to "field", and i did finish reading the study and my point stands.

Thank you mods. 👍

It's very, very, very early days, crude prototypes at this stage, from what I understood of the article. Its basically a new kind of micro transistor, that can emulate neurons better than normal silicon transistors.

The likelihood of such tech remaining 'untamperable' would be quite low, once the engineering principles are better understood, I would think.

It's been my dream since I was a kid. Being able to integrate artificial brain to organic brain would soon allow us to map the natural brain's function to the artificial part. As the natural brain fails, you can persist within the artificial brain.

We could gain new abilities, like seeing extra colors, have extra dimensional thinking, have a better in-brain calculations, be able to control extra limbs...

So much of who we are is because of our physical limitations. We could be more.

Did you actually use ChatGPT? That's a pretty elegant and accurate summary, fk knows what those downvotes are about.

It can be done already, but the quality of the book will always be in question. You just break down what ChatGPT is doing into small consumable tasks. You don’t say, “Write me a book.” You say, “Please give me an outline for a book and list 12 chapters with titles relevant to the plot. Then you ask it to write each chapter. I’d recommend you also edit as you go. ChatGPT is a tool to save labor, but you have to give it reasonable, consumable inputs versus your expectations.

Awesome, now make a trillion and network them.

It doesn't matter if they're a company, research lab, non-profit, or whatever... research and development costs money. And of course their funding is going to come with strings attached.

Also, ChatGPT is, from my understanding, just a fine-tuned version of GPT-3 (GPT-3.5?) and nothing radically new in and of itself. If they write a paper on it, it'll likely be after it's been through thorough public testing so they can include new insights.

Okay kiddo, so there are these tiny things in our body called neurons that help our brain send messages to the rest of our body. Scientists are trying to make tiny machines that can do the same thing as neurons, but it's hard to make them work the same way. They found a special kind of plastic that can work like a neuron and they used it to make a tiny machine that can send messages like a real neuron. They also found that they can make the machine work better by adding special chemicals called amino acids. They tested the tiny machine on a mouse and it worked really well, just like a real neuron.

Famous last words, and I write.

You just made it into my Salitzar's Pit of slime.

Ever thought of writing… fan fiction?

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And some of that explanation may even be correct

That's the same way I've used it to architect and write out larger programming projects. When you're stuck with a limited context window, a top-down approach is king.

People said the same thing about Go.

But when it comes to art, what does "surpass" even mean? Did Steinbeck surpass Tolkien? Did Picasso surpass Klimt?

It's a meaningless question. What matters is whether AI will be able to create works that are meaningful and moving to humans - and I believe that it will.

It's pretty stunning what the GPT models can / will be able to do with language, but we're still a long way from competing with professional writers. There's a big difference between coherent prose (which anyone with a bit of experience can write) and creating compelling original characters or tapping into the human condition. Great novels accomplish a lot more than just "good writing".

That being said, there is a lot of trash that gets published anyway! The AI may not be coming for Stephen King, but it will be coming for a lot of the mediocre stuff on Amazon.

Literally never

AI will never surpass human authors.

It's plausible sounding that memories are globs of slime that travel to something called 'Salitzar's Pit' to be remembered?

Anybody who takes that at face value should probably not be on the internet