Moderation is also weird, they sometimes allow low-effort memes like that but often delete more interesting threads.

What does "prepared" mean to you?

First, a sub about the singularity is not necessarily a sub about "Singularitarianism", which is often treated more like a religion by its adherents. This attitude is rampant here, TBH.

Secondly, blind optimism is not inherently more rational than skepticism.

Fear has a practical purpose - it inspires necessary caution and lets us seek out and avoid potential problems.

"Move fast and break things" is not the correct attitude when we are talking about the singularity, a potentially life-ending event at the extremes, and enormously disruptive even at the good end of potentialities.

The track record so far for humanity is that this technology will benefit a wealthy few who control it, and nearly all of us will be utterly fucked by the transition. Some of our kids may benefit, but without major societal changes we are going to experience an economic fallout that will make the great depression look cute.

TL/DR: Skepticism and fear are healthy. We need to be cautious and pro-active about not only about AI alignment and safety, but also economic policy. Mainstream anxiety about AI should be harness to push for policy changes ASAP.

Would work great as automated scams tho. Sounds sort of profitable in the short run and is exactly one of the things AI safety guys are warning about.

Transformer is the T in GPT

This. Imagine if MySpace 2.0 is having a 100% unique VR chill out room, office, meditation space or whatever. Combine with great sound design and let people link VR streams from their personal space.

People don't buy VR sets because they're still a nerd/gamer thing. It must become a status thing and the masses will follow

thinkfluencers and salesdorks are excellent terms for what's on linkedin

Yes, I'm just now trying Whisper out. Yesterday evening I was writing a little tool to use its speech transcription, feed the transcribed text to ChatGPT API and then retrieve the response and have it spoken back to me via Microsoft Azure Neural Voices.

I didn't get it quite done yet but I think I got almost done in a few hours. It'll feel funny to leapfrog Google Home, Alexa and Siri like this in a rare opportunity lol.

It's easy to make though, so no money in it. It's already been made even so it's just hacking for fun. There's a Siri shortcut for ChatGPT too, already been made.

It's pretty wild how an amateur can make this however, and none of these big billion dollar companies have a product to do it.

Very strange feeling and moment in science.

I think generative ai will become vr / ar's killer app. Once image generation is fast enough to be percieved as reality, you can explore endless worlds, stories and adventures.

Interacting with artificial agents is going to be a game changer in virtual spaces

I'm going to ignore the arbitrary assessment of AI morality without any evidence.

The real concept to keep in mind is power differential. It doesn't matter if an entity with god-like intelligence and abilities is carbon-based or silicon-based. The power differential between that entity and the rest of humanity is going to create corruption or "effective corruption" on an unimaginable scale.

This is what all of those thinkfluencer salesdorks on LinkedIn don't get. If your Big Idea is 'let's do the same thing as before, but scaled!' then you don't have a Big Idea.

You're pretty much just rolling the dice and hoping that THIS TIME you were the early adopters of bitcoin / first-issue comics / Beanie Babies / tulip bulbs / etc.

One thing I am looking forward to on the road of AGI is watching these people repeatedly stick butter knives into electric sockets as they're trivially undermined not just by the technology, but the groupthink of their equally unresourceful peers. And they Just. Won't. Get It. Buncha Wile E. Coyotes who keep using the exact same scheme.

This is the way. No point in speculating on specific stocks, it will be too volatile. When AI wins as a whole, this is how you get your piece of the pie.

Whisper is basically this, which is an Open AI product. Not enough people are realizing just how important Whisper is going to be.

It may make products and services that now are beyond the economic reach of most people affordable to the masses.

Buy a broad-based, low-cost stock market index like VTSAX. As the economy grows so will your wealth.

I admire your effort but long term there is no hope for this sub. It's doomed. It will become mainstream and lose all of the qualities that made it great. Over the next few years you'll see people straight up posting inflammatory and violent posts on this sub. They will blame us. They will ridicule us. It's inevitable.

Too bad it doesn’t support audio yet. Also there are other AI models specifically for subtitling.

Subtitles? I remember a company that would pay people to make subtitles for videos. The entry test was surprisingly hard so I never started but chat gpt could probably pass it and then correctly format jobs.

Yep, ever since it passed the 100k members threshold, it’s only been a matter of time

This person might not be referring to the past year or so as much as they are the past few years. Certainly, things have gotten a lot more optimistic with the current popular explosion in the tech, but the actual quality of discussion has also diminished quite a bit compared to a couple years ago. Or maybe I’ve just become better at discerning opinion from analysis, it’s hard to say.

It at least helps build a baseline understanding though

>transformers

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This. I dont see how AI will increase demand by any means.

Its worth nothing at the moment, the products are midjourney images the overall website is empty. Click on any link its just the basic front design in a browser: https://www.greengadgetguru.com/

He doesnt have any investors and making up numbers :)

I mean mods could ban and delete all the lowest common denominator posts and posters and allow us to report this stuff specifically. Only way a sub stays true to it's original identity.