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Gordon_Freeman01 t1_j4zpwm7 wrote

Reply to comment by Yomiel94 in AI doomers everywhere on youtube by Ashamed-Asparagus-93

I used to think in a similar way. Today I think it is not possible. An AI is just an algorithm. How are you going to generate an algorithm for everything ? For every possible situation ? It would have to be conscious and that is impossible. Something, that is conscious, has to be built in a certain way, which our current computers are not.

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Dalinian1 t1_j4zohud wrote

Reply to AI doomers everywhere on youtube by Ashamed-Asparagus-93

Sharing efforts in creating ethical use would help soften a transition. Tech is good and bad, depends on the handlers. How do we promote the good more? I'm both excited but worried. I'm excited at the efficiencies and potential to more broadly connect but worried for the parts of the population that might abuse it or be abused. Same problem, new variable, but just different century.

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just-a-dreamer- t1_j4zm2qw wrote

Reply to comment by dragon_dez_nuts in The year is 2058. I awake in my pod. by katiecharm

No they did not. They were actually drunk all day, at least in the 1800s in the USA. Americans were consuming 1.7 bottles of a standard 80-proof liquor per person, per week.

Middle age peasant farmers didn't work that much outside harvest season. In winter, they did next to nothing to preserve energy.

Hunters and gatheres worked very little, they practiced infanticide though to keep their numbers in check relative to their enviroment.

Modern deffintion of work rose with the factory system and the establishment of sugar plantations. Actually the british took many lessons from slave plantations into their first factories. Sugar nutrituon for the first time enabled workers to put in 12h shifts.

Given a choice, most people work as little as possible for a "living". That is the natural state of the world. They also like to be high and have sex, al lot, when they have nothing better to do.

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Northcliff t1_j4zlwtb wrote

Reply to comment by gaudiocomplex in OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman won't tell you when they reach AGI, and they're closer than he wants to let on: A procrastinator's deep dive by Magicdinmyasshole

> When asked about one viral (and factually incorrect) chart that purportedly compares the number of parameters in GPT-3 (175 billion) to GPT-4 (100 trillion), Altman called it “complete bullshit.”

> “The GPT-4 rumor mill is a ridiculous thing. I don’t know where it all comes from,” said the OpenAI CEO. “People are begging to be disappointed and they will be. The hype is just like... We don’t have an actual AGI and that’s sort of what’s expected of us.”

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thebenshapirobot t1_j4zlchy wrote

Reply to comment by Bierculles in AI doomers everywhere on youtube by Ashamed-Asparagus-93

I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don't know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he's said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this:

>Heterosexual marriage is the cornerstone of society; homosexual marriage offers no benefits to society.

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