Midjourney looks flashy, but any "real prompt engineer" has to use Stable Diffusion imo. MJ is good for making certain images, but the sheer flexibility and power of SD completely dwarfs it by far.

MJ is great for a quick example or for people who aren't tech savvy and can't run SD, but IMO it's more of a toy while SD is a tool

you're not getting it, the operator doesn't know chinese, but the whole setup does. chatGPT clearly understands several languages, it doesn't need to be conscious to understand.

Let’s get more concrete. Regarding the first point of your argument, what would be an example of something AGI would want to do (and a good argument for why) that isn’t the second point, “to maintain a state of existence to accomplish things;” a human existential idea? We aren’t immortal, but it easily could be, and perhaps that distinction as a tangible possibility between the two intelligences is the thing that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Now why would it want to destroy us on its own? Why would we want to turn it off?

People keep gate keeping and moving the goalpost for what "real" ai is, there's no way AI can even catch up to the ever sliding goal post

From a creators perspective Midjourney is far from exceptional... let alone acceptable.

I think this might be more of an assistive tech than something thats going to be automating an entire orchard. Drones, even ones that can move a payload as minuscule as an apple are very energy intensive machines, and by extension more expensive to use than human labor.

It boggles my mind. I've been trying to write a sci-fi novel for more than a decade with plausible / believable tech but it's so hard to imagine what things will be like in another 50 years, let alone 500, beyond smartphones evolving into implants or an intrinsic AR.

I'd like to add that it's not that they are right about most humans scope of understanding, because 90% dont even understand the internet, it's that they refuse to. This is a threat to every way of life that most know, whether they acknowledge it or not. This is form of fear based refusal because no one has been taught how to understand outside their means. One would argue that even this case can be applied to us because while we are excited, there is plenty of space to worry about what this impacts for the singular.

We dont know how to stop, change, or even combat what this will become. Your most basic sense of survival is threatened, and only so many thought experiments will comfort one's mind. We can say we understand even to the nth degree, but we only can form in our mind what we are comfortable with.

Yes. Im not concerned about hurting a thing that was created only to be hurt.

You can’t just measure how well or interesting a text completion engine spits out words and proclaim it has “mastery”. Frankly that is BS.

People don't understand the potential. I see a lot of people say it's just a more advanced chatbot or things like "that's what they said 10 years ago" etc. when they're told their jobs are going to be replaced.

Lol, to some people here (check replies to my comment) having 24x7 self driving cars without drivers in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix in 2023 is nothing.

People are not understanding what it's happening. Literally robots replacing our driving skills NOW, not in the future, NOW, and people are like "yeah but it can't run in a Norwegian mountain yet". Lol.

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

This could follow the path of Stable Diffusion: a smaller, open source model comparable to the bigger Dall-e in performance, which in turn gave birth to the more-than-exceptional Midjourney.

Let's see!

Mercedes actually just passed tesla with their certification to use their fsd based system in the US. Which to me is a better sign than any that we are approaching that precipice. Im much more interested in relevant biz injecting some ai into their process than some hot shot with a (or some rockets) dream who cant make a decent vehicle to save his life.

So having 24x7 no-driver self driving cars operating in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix (and waiting to obtain license to run on New York and other cities) is not "completely autonomous driving"? Why do you focus on Tesla that isn't even trying to replace drivers?

Yup.

"cities" bigger than European countries.

I think ChatGPT has finer grained data. in fact I did teach Spanish piglatin ( geringoso) to ChatGPT and it did learn it after about a dozen promts even though it insisted that it didn't know and couldn't learn it.

i had to ask to play role as a person that knew the piglatin I tought him. Funny thing is it ranted about not being able to do the translation, and they l that I wanted to know I could v apply the rules muy self! but next paragraph it said something like. " but the person would have said..." followed by a pretty decent translation

Thats gnosticism /s

I missed the original film which had a for the time advanced scifi plot of a computer virus, something not heavily discussed in media back then

I will believe it when I see it. Otherwise this just reads as snake oil.

Ok so what do you want from us? Should this be the only thing we talk about? Should we be running around in circles screaming “The Singularity is near!”? MAYBE TYPING IN ALL CAPS WOULD HELP?

Yes it’s amazing! And the rate of change is accelerating. The next few years will see huge breakthroughs. I get it! But i also need to eat breakfast and take a shit every morning, and live my life. Yes The Singularity is near, but what the fuck am i supposed to do about it?

I really don’t understand what some of you are expecting. You sound like a religious nut job demanding that we all praise Jebus.

Honestly, it's already a sort of premature AGI. It can do any task you throw at it if you teach it correctly. It will do it poorly, but it will do it.

It's scary, and most people will refuse to understand things that frighten them.

Nobody is saying any of that