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Kurzgesagt put out a pretty good video about proteins recently. A nice, big-picture overview with great visualizations.

It's already more knowledgeable then most nurses I know and has better manners. I tell my coworkers, in Japan they already have robot caregivers, we will be phased out eventually. Better learn to care for those robots.

It's interesting that openai has somehow become the deciders of what is hateful or even moral.

"a small handful of unelected anons, mostly with engineering backgrounds and probably in their 20s and probably adherents to a system of moral reason that is quite controversial"

https://www.jonstokes.com/p/lovecrafts-basilisk-on-the-dangers

I feel you. The older people I work with keep saying things like these electric cars are never going to work. They might have a long list of draw backs my old friends but Norway goes 100% electric for new cars in 2025. It's not coming. It's here now.

No we won't

Point one is pure speculation, and not even that likely. You'll have to first define why it wants to accomplish something if you expect to get anywhere with the rest of your speculation.

Lol. I know many people working in AI and their views are just as fantastical and grandiose as the average poster here

>AGI will want to accomplish something.

No. Only if we tell it to.

>AGI needs to maintain a state of existence to accomplish things.

No. It could tell us it can't do it. It might not have control over it.

>AGI will therefore have a drive to self-preserve

No. It can just be an instance of a system trying to do it's job, not knowing more about the world than necessary.

>Humanity is the only real threat to the existence of AGI

No, the whole universe is.

>AGI will disempower/murder humanity

We'll see.

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Yeah, but it's not as good as chatgpt. Plus, chatgpt API will have 8x the content window, thus memory.

I'm with you. I think a lot of people joining this sub don't understand the concept, simply.

Yeah I know. At least both of us know better and stand above the crowd with our obvious credentials.

It's hard being so knowledgeable and wise on a daily basis, especially surrounded by these plebians. 🧙‍♂️

Most people would think AGI will develop some fancy tech to kill human, an engineered pathogen or nanobot, but in fact, how human domain some area, then agi can use the same way to do it. Like recruit followers, invade some area and ask people to service to it like the human ruler do. In fact, I think develop fancy science tool is the most hard to get rid of human control, and recruit some human to beat and control the other human is a more funny and feasible plot.

>I am not a doomer

It's not necessarily for you to decide if you are categorized as one. If you construct a rather unrealistic problem, which will do a lot of harm to us, which isn't solvable and claim no mitigation is possible, because it has to all go wrong, then you have a doomer mentality. Which makes you a doomer.

And it is how the humanity extinct.

Exponential growth of AI capability isn't a law of nature. It's only obvious in hindsight and depends on a lot of little things and a nice conducive R&D environment. We're not guaranteed to follow any exponentials.

Some people on this sub are going to be disappointed when we don't have AGI in 5 or 10 years. Or maybe they'll have forgotten that they predicted AGI by 2030 by the time 2030 actually rolls around.

It wasn't until the development of the personal computer in the 1970s and 1980s that computers became more accessible to the general public. Even then, the early personal computers were not widely adopted at first, as they were still expensive and not very user-friendly. It wasn't till almost 20 years later with the growth off the internet that computers became an essential part of people's lived. Op most people lack vision.

Specifically Andorra, Vatican City, Lichtenstein, and like a couple others which are all tiny.

Well, relatives and colleagues not getting the extent of how much things will change (and how fast) does not bother me as much as the “smart” people in media (even tech media) totally missing the point. They do not bother to do an iota of research and sound more or less like general public while fawning over or criticizing the ONE AI system them know of - ChatGPT. More than lack of imagination, theirs is pure laziness.

signals mean different things in different contexts.

i think you are extremely wrong to say very few practical use cases at this point (almost makes me question if you have used them much?)

even when vc money was "wrong" like in the dot com bubble. it turned out to be right, just early. (lets ignore crypto plz).

If anything maybe vc is late here lol (tho probly not and for the record i personally hold 6 month treasuries at this point just cuz i think market doesn't give a shit about much except for like mortgages and gov spending, ah yea and the whole taiwan thing could nuke appl from orbit and silicon valley bank may be insolvent or something?)

Very well said and exceedingly accurate

IMO SD and the AI tools are just fantastic compliments to the rest of your artistic kit, just like photoshop and blender etc, but are still just tools in the kit rather than the whole kit

People who think they replace artists are not seeing the real picture. The only artists they replace are the lowest end artists, and all those artists have to do is adapt to the tech and they will still be relevant too.

Even with SD I still run into tuns of situations where I need to use photoshop to tweak something or need to draw something, and I instantly run into the limit of my artistic skill, because I'm not a real artist.

Which IMO, is the gap between an "ai artist" and an actual artist. AI can make some really beautiful stuff (one of my favorites I've seen), but as soon as you need to customize it or make fine tweaks you start having to fight the AI rather than work with it

Of course... that's why I would never claim that a parrot had mastered language. It may know words but it can't use language in creative, communicative, problem solving. LLMs can.

I can get decent textures out of SD, which is what I use it for.

I know this is gonna rustle a lot of feathers, but people need to not use these models to produce whole pieces. It hurts how seriously people take real artistic skills, and makes these tools look immoral.