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vampyre2000 t1_jcinyau wrote

Reply to comment by alexiuss in Skeptical yet uninformed. New to the scene. by TangyTesticles

Currently 4000 AI papers being released every month that’s one new paper every 5 minutes. You cannot read that fast. This on its current projection is to increase to 6000 papers per month.

We are already on the singularity curve. The argument is exactly where on the curve we are. But change is happening exponentially. Society is already rapidly embracing these models and it’s really only become popular with the public since November last year.

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liright t1_jci7kx4 wrote

Reply to Those who know... by Destiny_Knight

Can someone explain alpaca to me? I see everyone saying it's gamechanging or something but nobody is explaining what it actually is.

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alexiuss t1_jchyxum wrote

Reply to comment by Floofyboy in Skeptical yet uninformed. New to the scene. by TangyTesticles

Language models can solve any riddle as long as they're taught the solution or given the tools to solve it. A human child cannot solve a Riddle either if they are not taught enough language. A human child raised with no humans is basically a wolf. A child raised to speak Russian cannot solve an English riddle. We as humans are insanely constrained by language barriers, beliefs and our meaty minds, LLMs are not. LLMs in their current version aren't an AGI but they can grow to get there in time as long as we keep improving them.

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alexiuss t1_jchy1sr wrote

Reply to comment by Kinexity in Skeptical yet uninformed. New to the scene. by TangyTesticles

That really depends on your definition of Singularity. Technically we are in the first step of it as I can barely keep track of all the amazing open source tools that are coming out for stable diffusion and LLMs. Almost every day there's a breakthrough that helps us do tons more.

We already have intelligence that's dreaming in results that are almost indistinguishable from human conversation.

It will only take one key to start the engine, one open source LLM that's continuously running and trying to come up with code that self improves itself.

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alexiuss t1_jchx1t2 wrote

Reply to Skeptical yet uninformed. New to the scene. by TangyTesticles

Large language models are already seeping all over and magnifying our intelligence and abilities to do more in less time.

Once they become specialized tools marketed for accomplishing specific goals and integrated with things like calendars and clocks they will have far greater impact as personal assistants.

Probably by next year everyone will have open source language models of amazing quality. Facebook's Llama 65b is very good quality from my tests but the video card to run it is 16k. The open source community is working on LLM optimization, we already quantized it to 4 bits reducing rendering costs.

Once open source models surpass openais closed source ones we will have an insane intelligence explosion that will cost us very little. Personal assistant ais will uplift every human one at a time on a personal level improving quality of life for everyone who uses them.

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RadRandy2 t1_jchwd92 wrote

Reply to comment by TallOutside6418 in GPT4 makes functional Flappy Bird AND an AI that learns how to play it. by gantork

Well, I agree with you, but humans aren't all made the same. The ones who reach great heights are often times...psychotic. Most people are charitable and empathetic even when they don't possess much. To say that AGI in all it's glory would assume the worst parts of humanity, well, I think it's not likely. Yes I believe AGI would allocate enough resources to sustain and grow itself, but I'm hoping that humanity is lifted with it. Maybe this is a fallacy that we can't avoid. But there has to be hope that moral philosophy is appreciated by AGI. I personally don't think such things will be overlooked by it, because it will understand more about wisdom and avoiding problems before they happen...

And maybe that last part is where the trouble begins. We both no idea if we'll be considered part of the problem, but I do appreciate reading others perspectives on the subject. Nobody is right when talking about such an enigmatic Godlike intelligence, so I think your reasons and most others are completely valid for the most part.

If we can assume so many things about AGI, we can also assume it'll perhaps have a soft spot for the species which created it...I hope.

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alexiuss t1_jchupuy wrote

Reply to comment by Kinexity in Skeptical yet uninformed. New to the scene. by TangyTesticles

Don't be a negative Nancy. Plenty of ppl on this sub are well paid programming nerds or famous artists like me who use AI for work. Singularity is coming very soon from what I can see and Ianguage models are an insane breakthrough that will change everything soon enough.

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Surur t1_jchoerx wrote

Reply to comment by Floofyboy in Skeptical yet uninformed. New to the scene. by TangyTesticles

Can you read?

> So I’ve recently joined this subreddit, around the time chat gpt was released and first came into the public eye. .... I don’t really understand the scope of this AI and techno stuff going on.

The AI stuff refers to all AI stuff. FFS.

> you are free to disagree and think chatGPT is ASI

Again, are you on the spectrum? What makes you think ANYONE is talking about ChatGPT?

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regret_my_life t1_jchob86 wrote

Reply to Skeptical yet uninformed. New to the scene. by TangyTesticles

AI itself won’t for (as of now at least) solve these issues by itself, but it will be a tool to further push these fields forward and accelerate progress. Research on longevity for instance has been going on for decades already so it’s not something “new” that AI will just solve. I recommend the podcast London futurists if you want to listen to some great interviews on all the topics you mentioned. It’s a very small podcast, but the content is top tier.

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