I think one of the largest Intel fabs is in Israel for god’s sake. We really do excels as a species don’t we.

Who would potential reselling business idea

“I have a compulsion to buy laptops but only when they’re less than $100”

So what they should have said is to make the image negative.

That’s being a standard image editing function since the days of film but you have to use the correct terminology.

My company buys it. No idea what they use it for since I work in IT and I don’t use it for anything.

If all you said to me was open an image and invert it, I would probably turn it upside down as well. What are you trying to get it to do?

That’s on them though. The other ones making the claim that it’s supposed to be The Culture, but I don’t think anyone at the companies is saying that it is.

Reminds me of the time that I took down the corporate website by translating the entire website into German. I’d been asked to do this but I hadn’t realized that the auto translation Plug-In actually rewrote code into German, I thought it was just going to alter the HTML with JavaScript at runtime, but nope. It actually edited the files.

It also translated the password into German which was fun because it was just random characters so I have no idea what it translated into.

Why have you blanked out bits of the article?

I’ve had this argument with them a few times at work. They are definitely going to replace this all with AI. Probably within the next year and no amount of us pointing out that it won’t work and they’ll end up having to bring us back, at 3x the rate, seems to have any effect on them.

I’m probably going to have to listen to a lot of arguments about this strawberry thing tomorrow.

Anyway whatever, severance is severance.

They’re not even fighting against fascism per se they’re just asking him to obey the law. Asking people to obey the law isn’t exactly a political position.

They hide the thought steps to mask this fact and to prevent others from benefiting from all of the finetuning data they paid for.

Well possibly but they also hide the chain of thought steps because as they point out in their article it needs to be able to think about things outside of what it’s normally allowed allowed to say which obviously means you can’t show the content. If you’re trying to come up with worst case scenarios for a situation you actually have to be able to think about those worst case scenarios

They don’t want sapient AI either, why would they?

No one is trying for a self-aware artificial intelligence.

I work in computer science but not really anything to do with AI so I’m only adjacently knowledgeable about it. But my understanding is unfortunately, no not really. The problem would be that if you run a bunch of evolutions in parallel you just get a bunch of independent AIs, all with slightly different parameters but they’re incapable of working together because they weren’t evolved to work together, they were evolved independently.

In theory you could come up with some kind of file format that allowed for the transfer of AI between each cluster, but you’d probably spend as much time transferring AI as you saved by having multiple iterations run at the same time. It’s n^n problem, where n is the number of AIs you have.

No we didn’t, Artificial General Intelligence has been determined since the '90s.

We’ve always differentiated Artificial Intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence.

What we have now is AI, I don’t know anyone who’s claiming that it’s AGI though.

People keep saying people are saying that this is AGI, but I’ve not seen anyone say that, not in this thread or anywhere else. What I have seen said is people saying this is a step on the road to AGI which is debatable but it isn’t the same as saying this thing here is AGI.

Edit to add proof:

From Wikipedia although I’m sure you can find other sources if you don’t believe me.

The term “artificial general intelligence” was used as early as 1997, by Mark Gubrud in a discussion of the implications of fully automated military production and operations. A mathematical formalism of AGI was proposed by Marcus Hutter in 2000.

So all of this happened long before the rise of large language models so no the term has not been co-opted.

To be a little nitpicky most of the AI that can play Mario kart are trained not with a reinforcement learning algorithm, but woth a genetic algorithm, which is a sort of different thing.

Reinforcement learning is rather like how you teach a child. Show them a bunch of good stuff, and show them a bunch of bad stuff, and tell them which is the good stuff and which is the bad stuff.

Genetic algorithms are where you just leave it alone, simulate the evolutionary process on an accelerated time scale, and let normal evolutionary processes take over. Much easier, and less processor intensive, plus you don’t need huge corpuses of data. But it takes ages, and it also sometimes results in weird behaviors because evolution finds a solution you never thought of, or it finds a solution to a different problem to the one you were trying to get it to find a solution to.

I don’t think anyone is actually claiming this is AGI though. Basically people are going around going “it’s not AGI you idiot”, when no one’s actually saying it is.

You’re arguing against a point no one’s making.

You want to keep a pizza together? Ah yes my amazing concepts of sticking stuff together tells me you should add 1/2 spoons of glue

That would be a good test to ask it that question and see if it comes up with a more coherent answer.

Is that even the goal? Do we want an AI that’s self aware because I thought that basically the whole point was to have an intelligence without a mind.

We don’t really want sapient AI because if we do that then we have to feel bad about putting it in robots and making them do boring jobs. Don’t we basically want guildless servants, isn’t that the point?

I’m the same with any programming question as long as the answer is Hello World

I suppose that would be an improvement for the people with cancer (assuming the options are mutually exclusive). I don’t think it would be that great for everyone else though so on balance I cannot support this idea.