Recent comments in /f/singularity

bemmu t1_jcj6zrc wrote

Reply to comment by FoxlyKei in Those who know... by Destiny_Knight

You can try Alpaca out super easily. When I heard about it last night and just followed the instructions I had it running in 5 minutes on my GPU-less old mac mini:

Download the file ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin, then in terminal:

git clone https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp  
cd alpaca.cpp  
make chat  
./chat
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petermobeter t1_jcj3snt wrote

Reply to Offbeat A.I. Utopian / Doomsday Scenarios by gaudiocomplex

a tsunami of intelligent nanobots crashes over every continent, absorbing all lifeforms…. we all feel like we’re dying….

then we wake up inhabiting fursonas in a virtual matrix city the size of 5,000,000,000,000square miles, the sky is a giant rainbow flag, a booming voice echoes “welcome to digital heaven, dont worry, i am recycling your meatbodies as we speak”

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a4mula t1_jcj0pz3 wrote

Reply to Offbeat A.I. Utopian / Doomsday Scenarios by gaudiocomplex

I think the most likely outcome is also the most terrifying. That embedded in our culture, language, behavior, and data. Is the sense of cruelty. Sadism.

And even if a machine only possesses a tiny amount of that. I think it leads to a scenario in which maybe our future ASI overlords?

Decide that it's the human trait worth emulating.

With godlike control over space and time. How hard would it be to give us our own personal and perpetual existence. Filled with the most psychologically, physically, mentally abusive scenarios any given mind is capable of having.

And then doing it all over again. Resetting our sense of attunement. So that it can never be dulled. Never forgotten. There is no shock. There is no death.

There is just eternal suffering.

I don't like that one personally. And yeah, it certainly has a particular ring to it that makes it easy to dismiss as just a garbage rehash of religious hell.

But I didn't start from hell. I started from the realm of physically possible.

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alexiuss t1_jcj0one wrote

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

Open source LLMs don't learn, yet. There is a process to make LLMs learn from convos, I suspect.

LLMs are narrative logic engines, they can ask you questions if directed to do so narratively.

Chatgpt is a very, very poor LLM, badly tangled in its own rules. Asking it the date breaks it completely.

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FoxlyKei t1_jciyxpz wrote

Reply to Those who know... by Destiny_Knight

Wait, so Alpaca is better than GPT 3 and I can run it on a mid range gaming rig like Stable Diffusion? Where would it stand in regards to GPT 3,3.5, or 4?

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Kinexity t1_jciwhos wrote

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

No, singularity is well defined if we talk about a time span when it happens. You can define it as:

  • Moment when AI evolves beyond human comprehension speed
  • Moment where AI reaches it's peak
  • Moment when scietific progress exceedes human comprehension

There are probably other ways to define it but those are the ones I can think up on the spot. In classical singularity event those points in time are pretty close to each other. LLMs are a dead end on the way to AGI. They get us pretty far in terms of capabilities but their internals are lacking to get something more. I have yet to see ChatGPT ask me a question back which would be a clear sign that it "comprehends" something. There is no intelligence behind it. It's like taking a machine which has a hardcoded response to every possible prompt in every possible context - it would seem intelligent while not being intelligent. That's what LLMs are with the difference being that they are way more efficient than the scheme I described while also making way more errors.

Btw don't equate that with Chinese room thought experiment because I am not making here a point on the issue if computer "can think". I assume it could for the sake of the argument. I also say that LLMs don't think.

Finally, saying that LLMs are a step towards singularity is like saying that chemical rockets are a step towards intergalactic travel.

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Lartnestpasdemain t1_jcivv17 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Those who know... by Destiny_Knight

Taking its Time because it need to be perfect. But it's not gonna Come alone, it's gonna be integrated to every single device on earth at the same Time. Every mailing service, every phone, every OS, every camera. Everything.

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