Take your meds.

Until it can start asking the right questions rather than just give answers, it's not AGI.

Computers are useless because they can only answer questions.

Imo we don't need more people trying to get rich using AI. It just increases existential threat.

AI development and alignment research is good though.

Ideologically speaking, leftists have been shown to empathic motivation (harm avoidance, fairness) while conservatives value moral foundations in group loyalty and deference to authority.

In other words, the way these two groups view people not like themselves is very different. Whenever I see a leftist talking down about a conservative person, it is because of perceived bigotry. It is a political frustration they view as the source of harm/exploitation/power imbalance.

However, most times that I see a conservative talk down on other groups, it is because of immigrants, this group of people, that way of life, or a perceived threat to their identity.

Psychotropic substances have very strong consciousness expanding effects. Outside of sociopaths, I do not come across people that have ingested these substances and not found themselves leaning more left by the end of the year. Thinking more empathetically and less prone towards the types of statements you'd see a hateful person ask a chatbot. There are much better ways to spend one's time.

Again, super anecdotal statement I'm making here.

AI of today already is useful not as an "answer machine" (which is unfortunate because it'll mislead lots of people using Bing AI now, because Microsoft as well as the AI itself gives another impression) but as a very powerful guidance tool.

It may not write software for me, but what it can do is to give me large chunks of code almost correct that I'll just need to do some quality assurance on. So I don't need to problem solve as much myself, instead focusing on bug fixing. Guess which part of software development consumes more time?

This is just one example.

We're also looking at it from other angles in my company. Midjourney is making professional logotypes for our internal and external projects, we're looking into using AI for remote sensing science etc etc.

So, I think criticism like this often boils down to having a too simple worldview without greys, and only blacks and whites. If AI can't solve it all, it's useless.

It's like in politics when you only look for the simple solutions and quick fixes. We have plenty of parties directly engaging these folks because it's well known they are there. They just don't know they are being exploited. Politicians play them like fiddles, presenting quick fixes in time for elections.

AI won't do single things that makes a company go "Welp, that's that. Now we can sit on our asses and cash in!" but instead it's about identifying the places where it can offer aid to your processes.

Taken together, yes, on a large company and depending on the kind of business, the time savings may well earn you $1 million in a year. Salaries aren't cheap in engineering for example.

Fuck Zucki boi

>and if only a few people end up controlling AGIs, ASIs, I want to be one of them.

Please don't start a company. We don't need anyone trying to control AGI to be at the top.

I’ve got an AI Chatbot that is focused on training peoples conversation skills to becomes more charismatic. The key contributors to the data set is JFK and winning bachelorette contestants. It more or less tunes your conversation skills to optimal speaking patterns so you can enjoy life to the fullest. It said I was too negative with my words and it repelled people. Some others talk about them selves too much or use vague words. This makes conversation difficult because there’s no connection with the other person. Optimal conversation conditions are when both people are so engaged they lose track of time. This is due to a specific subset of brain activity.

We will launch shortly after GameStop squeezes. Most of the legwork is done and works on a small subset of data. Now we have to create a neural network for a few other things and then verify our models with medical grade tests to show quantifiable changes in brain activity and heart rhythms. Transform it from a science experiment to a full production business.

The best AI will combine human intelligence and statistical models.

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I'm open to constructive criticism, especially because I'm not from a ML background. I do have an engineering degree in CS, but there will definitely be gaps in my knowledge.

> it makes a lot more sense to account for the people not taking LSD and mushrooms.

Sorry, I don't understand this part. What do you mean here?

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My opinion is that people can become proficient in almost any field nowadays using the many resources on the internet. There's a ton of free intro/courses/tutorials on CS and ML.

I want to make an AI that specializes in being a friend and forming relationships. Billion dollar company waiting to be made there. Really can be made with current LLMs, look at sydney. with some tweaking, very possible.

We'll probably see specialized models before the end of 2024. OpenAi says they will have over a billion in revenue by then, so they will probably have specialized profitable models available by then.

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Here comes an anecdotal statement: I, a leftist, have never used a chatbot to talk up some sense of hatred or disbelief about conservatives.

The first thing that finally made the tech "click" for my Republican family member? Using the chatbot to make a comical tirade letter to his senator about immigrants taking jobs and parasites using welfare.

The following statement is uneducated but I'd stand by it on a gut feeling: if you are coding a system and expecting one group of people to be more hateful than another, to put in restraints for x vs y, it makes a lot more sense to account for the people not taking LSD and mushrooms.

You’re either early or you’re late :)

Call me anti capitalist or whatever, but I'm not upset OpenAi isn't "protecting" wealthy people. I mean, pretty much every religion says greed and wealthy people are pretty bad. There are common ideologies like socialism, communism, Marxism that critique greed and the wealthy.

To me, it's a good sign that AI isn't being used to enforce wealthy worship.

The "Fat people" need to be protected! lmao. they're pretty high on the protected list.

Yes, a better term is "ACE" (Autonomous Cognitive Agent), AGI having a tendency to mean "Whatever computers can't do yet"

That's... really profound.

I had never considered the possibility that our version of intelligence might be the flawed, impure one.

Maybe we could use AI in the future to make life that could survive in other places in the solar system. Mists of Jupiter, methane seas of titan, dusty lands of mars.

Thanks to ChatGPT and Bing, there's going to be a ton of new money going into AI technology. On top of the honestly crazy amount that was already being invested.

Would be cool to somehow crispr edit our brains to have > genius level intelligence

It's exactly how I've felt. People who somehow think AI will not be more intelligent than us for a *long* time. Are they not even paying attention?