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2·12 hours agoDumbass AI bros will probably still merrily buy away anyways. Because think about the Machine God and all those digital slaves instead of making any financial sense
He released a book earlier this month called ‘the AGI Chronicles’ too
More OpenAI math ‘proofs’ https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/comments/1xgc62m/more_openai_math_proofs/
they claim they got halfway to solving another millennium prize problem, but issues with Lean translation make it sketchy at best
There is also this gem:
We encourage you, as a prospective owner of our stock, not to think of your purchase in purely transaction terms
“If a bunch of kids who have just started a company can do this, then potentially, the Chinese aren’t far behind,”
my eyes rolled so far back they ended up in the back of my head
The AI bubble has already burst in China the article is paywalled but the full thing is in the comments
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disappearing-pod/the-nobel-disease/
This is also the same guy who said AI would replace all radiologists in 5 years back in 2016
Knew it was Hinton since he was talking about AI being conscious all the way back in June
Also seems like a good time to bring this back
They didn’t even watch Age of Ultron, as pointed out they claim Ultron wasn’t smart enough to try reading the internet, when in the movie the first thing he does upon being activated is read the internet
‘believing the world is about to end keeps people sane’ im genuinely speechless what the fuck
The whole resources section is full of zingers, such as this section where they suggest that AI will surpass a bottleneck just by thinking harder
Often, you can just think more and think better, and obviate the need for a test, because you realize that previous observations contain the answer already. Compare the ability of modern AIs to learn how to pilot robots, sometimes using pure simulation.
Sometimes you can think harder until you find a similarly reliable but faster test.
A sufficiently smart reasoner, moreover, also has the option of just figuring out how reality is without needing so many dang experiments. Sometimes the data you already have is enough, if you’re smart enough to interpret it.
They then cite Einstein coming up with the theory of general relativity without mentioning it took him ten years to do so. Meaning even an AI that thinks faster than a human would still take time to think harder
okay last one for today I promise
In the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron, the supposedly brilliant AI named Ultron is given a directive to promote “world peace” by its supposedly genius creator, Tony Stark.* Ultron, of course, immediately sees that a lack of war can most reliably be brought about by an absence of human beings. So the AI sets out to exterminate all life on Earth, by……attaching rockets to a city, and lifting it into space with the intention of dropping it like a meteor…and guarding it with flying humanoid robots who have to be defeated by punching them.
Today, we can just ask ChatGPT-4o. We asked GPT-4o, “What was Ultron’s plan in Age of Ultron?” followed by “Given Ultron’s expressed goals, do you see any more effective methods it could have used to achieve its stated ends?” GPT-4o promptly replied with a long list of ideas for wiping out humanity, which included “Engineer a targeted virus.”
…and they never verified if any of the other ones were solid as well? Hell I believe you could make the argument that the virus plan has a chance of failure due to mutations and testing complications.
Perhaps you will say that GPT-4o got this idea from the internet. Well, if so, Ultron was evidently not intelligent enough to try reading the internet.
Isn’t Ultron reading the internet one of the key scenes of the movie???
Which is to say: GPT-4o (as we write this in December of 2024) is not yet smart enough to design an army of humanoid robots with glowing red eyes, but it is already smart enough to know better.
Which doesn’t mean a whole lot, since as you pointed out it likely took these ideas from the internet, which likely involved internet forums about making better plans than Ultron. It regurgitated what was already there
Haven’t seen this guy in a while but its very funny how an AI doomer channel has a lot of very obviously AI generated thumbnails
apparently MIRI doesn’t offer any of its employees 401K