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AGI is so close, it's almost scary (hexbear.net)

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[-] AtmosphericRiversCuomo@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

I love being emancipated from my job by a statistical model of the way Reddit users talk but without any of the substance of a Redditor as a person (not much) left, I can ask it to write a Marvel movie script about this situation as I pack up my desk

This is exactly what I'm talking about. This is potentially the biggest technological innovation in a long time and it's going to completely sideswipe all of you because of this toxic attitude. Separate the players from the actual game.

Thankfully planners in China don't succumb to this western learned helpless routine or they'd miss out on all the potential gains of the last few decades by sleeping on the extremely obvious potential for factory automation.

Like how can you see this kind of thing and just be like treat printer bazinga boil the oceans waifu etc. Is it perfect yet? No, did it just come out in the past couple years and already obviate decades of expert systems research? Yes, it absolutely did.

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[-] AtmosphericRiversCuomo@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago

we should combat their use and deployment as much as possible

Yeah, great I look forward to the western left leading the butlerian jihad. There's a reason why Luddites are synonymous with getting jack shit done, and I would expect so called materialists to make the cold calculation necessary to understand this.

It's obviously not just language models at work here, it's transformer based architectures in general. Why do you think we can generate video, text, and transcribe audio, and a host of other things like protein discovery all dramatically better than a couple years ago? And this all happened around the same time? Major tech companies are currently folding up their prior machine learning efforts because they've been BTFO by this leap in tech. This is something that is absolutely happening in the ML space across the software industry.

The fact that you think I'm even talking about LLMs exclusively is such a myopic view of what's really going on. There has been an explosion of robotics breakthroughs in the past year alone because of this kind of thing, it's not just that video, look at what Unitree is doing or any of the other Chinese robotics companies that are dominating this space now.

You guys are the redditors you hate when you come at this with the same energy as a liberal about genocide in Xinjiang or something, like you've already made up your mind. Just believe what you want to believe about it. I'm done trying to educate you. Only time will tell and it's not like I get anything out of it when the goalposts move yet again.