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Talkat t1_j5t1iaf wrote

Reply to comment by Emory_C in Anyone else kinda tired of the way some are downplaying the capabilities of language models? by deadlyklobber

Alright I'll give it a shot.

A majority of Labor pre industrial revolution was human powered. Therefore everything took a lot of time and energy and 95÷+ of humans was in farming.

The industrial revolution allowed us to replace human muscles with mechanical. That resulted in <5÷ in farming.

The AI revolution will change human powered thinking to mechanical, but of course just like a motor is stronger than a human, can run 24/7, can be made bigger, etc, the same is true for AI

So expect 95÷+ change in how people live their lives. How? Who knows. But the change is monumental and will be a far faster transition than the industrial revolution

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TheOGCrackSniffer t1_j5t098c wrote

Reply to AI + VR by CogGear

I can't wait to have an ai perfectly recreate attack on titan in vr, so i can massacre some titans >:)

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Mohevian t1_j5sxl2w wrote

Reply to comment by _dekappatated in This subreddit has seen the largest increase of users in the last 2 months, gaining nearly 30k people since the end of November by _dekappatated

To be fair, Carmack just sunk his last $50 million into Keen Industries, to make GOFAI.

The guy practically invented 3D Software as we know it; and pretty much all of his endeavors were about a decade too soon for mass market hardware support.

If that's the case, the singularity can be no further out than 2035, at the latest.

People just want to hop on the bus early and see if there is any money to be made once all employment/human thought is rendered completely obsolete.

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turnip_burrito t1_j5su1l4 wrote

Reply to comment by chomponthebit in What ethical ramifications do programmers, corps, &amp; gov take into consideration to protect AI consciousnesses that may emerge? by chomponthebit

Yes there does. Emergent doesn't mean magic.

There MUST be a physical mechanism responsible for the emergence, one we can theoretically trace and monitor, if it exists. If this wasn't true, then you'd be breaking known laws of physics.

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grimorg80 t1_j5stmjb wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Anyone else kinda tired of the way some are downplaying the capabilities of language models? by deadlyklobber

Not "completely".

I work in tech, and specifically in Marketing Tech, and I can assure you that we are already seeing a massive shift and a proliferation of tools that are already delivering value to companies, especially small companies or one-person-teams.

As someone wrote on LinkedIn "individuals have never been able to produce so much by themselves thanks to generative AI" and it's so true. It's already shifting consumer behaviour, and we're barely at the beginning of commercially available AI tools.

So, yes. While the buzz around GPT as a proto-AGI or ASI is completely BS, the fact that current AI tools are already massively impacting certain sectors is undeniable.

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Reddituser45005 t1_j5sqjow wrote

Reply to Anyone else kinda tired of the way some are downplaying the capabilities of language models? by deadlyklobber

It is a variation on the glass half empty vs the glass half full nature of pessimists vs optimists. It is a debate as old as history. The optimist focuses on what it can do and is understandably impressed. The pessimist focuses on what it can’t do and proceeds to shit all over it. What matters is that that we keeping moving forward. We take so many things for granted that seemed unobtainable at one time. Think about how what goes into to turn by turn GPS navigation. It’s a standard feature in every phone. You have computer generated speech ( with different language, gender, and accent voice options) using a combination of satellites and highly detailed mapping, routing you through a city, or across a country, and making real time adjustments for traffic accidents and construction closures and being used every day by hundreds of millions of people across the globe. Take a minute to think about how amazing that really is. There was a popular book in the 1990’s called Longitude. It was the story of a guy in the 1800s that built the first sufficiently accurate clock for ships to be able to calculate their longitudinal position at sea. It was a major problem. There was a huge cash prize to whoever could solve the problem. Prior to that, ships were crossing oceans with only a guesstimate of their location. What would a sailor from that era think of people carrying a device in their pocket that could pinpoint their exact location on earth, translate languages, play music, take pictures and do everything a phone can do. I take the optimist view because I compare now to the past, not to an imagined future

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