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It's not AI that's the problem. AI is an amazingly powerful tool (I'm an AI researcher).
The problem is that it's in the hands of psychotic technofascist greedy subhumans that want to destroy basically all of society so their stock can go up 0.001%. If we can cut out the source of the cancer, the body can begin to heal itself.
Is it? I keep hearing people keep parroting this but what big advancements have we made cause of AI?
As a developer, I keep hearing this but all I see is low quality software that is all smoke and mirrors. Pumping out low quality code at a high pace is worse than pumping out less but higher quality code.
Dude, ChatGPT just solved an Erdős problem a few days ago and Mythos is exploiting decade old undiscovered 0-days in OSes and capable of pivoting 0-day Firefox bugs into full blown root access.
Yeah, I get that the viral "how many 'r's are in strawberry" stuff is funny, but the idea that historical issues with transformers is preventing them from accelerating peak capabilities way beyond what most experts thought was possible just years ago is borderline delusional.
The field is moving so fast at this point that if you are basing any sense of limitations on even ~2mo old sampling, your conclusions are likely out of date.
They aren't a silver bullet for everything (yet) but how capable they are at the things transformers are starting to be specialized into is well past the avg practitioner.
I've been writing software for well over a decade and the modern agents do a better job than I would around 90% of the time. Yes, I'll occasionally need to bring up issues with their work, but I'd say at this point around 50% of the times I think they made a mistake I was actually the one who was wrong.
This is only within around the last 3-4 months that it's been like this.
Dude, it's not even worth it. These crazy people want to live in their own realities. No matter how much you explain something, they'll continue to believe what they want to feel morally superior, even if it's completely naive.
Oh did it solve it? You didn’t really provide any sources so I had to look it up myself.
And in the example from 2 days ago, it just applied an existing formula in a different context.
Which is helpful for sure, but I wouldn’t say it solves it.
'Just'? It's been an open problem for decades that mathematicians have tried to solve over that time.
And now it is solved.
Because ChatGPT applied something no humans ever thought to do.
And Terence Tao and the other mathematicians that have reviewed it say it's solved. But I guess someone should let them know that grandwolf319 doesn't consider it solved?
I didn’t say it’s not solved, I said chatGPT didn’t solve it but gave a hint.
Right! If you don't count the mass surveillance boost, the autonomous killing machines they're trying to make, the environmental impact, the pillaging of our individual experiences, and the destruction of all our shared spaces online, AI is a pretty cool tool.
Narrator: actually, no it was not.
e.g. it still spreads misinformation.
I was excited about the idea of purpose-built systems trained on specific datasets to be help find complex patterns to diagnose diseases or suggest potential molecules for specific purposes.
Then the LLM shit started and everyone started fantasizing about intelligent "AI" just because it was able to reproduce patterns of language that seem relevant to a given input. Some of those funding it kept chasing that dream and are convinced that, if they just throw more compute at the problem, they can evolve the renaissance AGI that can do anything. Then they can fire every worker and be bazillionaires with robot slaves and never have to work another day of their lives... and fuck everyone and everything else.
It's amazing what we can ruin when we let greed and selfishness drive our society.
At 1million i could already stop working and live decent life :/. I really don't get why past 1billion they continue to search for more
They actually have a disorder or disease. However in this case their disorder is destroying the rest of the world. There's a fast approaching point that the world organism will self-heal to prevent its own death.
I want to agree with you, but AI is just another psychopath in a world where we don't need any more psychopaths.
The lack of regulation of AI is absolutely a serious problem, there are so many problems your comment isn't even funny.
Problems with people using it for health advice.
Problems with teens using it instead of friends.
Problems with AI giving absurdly incorrect advice to people in general, but also professionals like managers and CEO's.
Problems with data-centers that host these AI systems require enormous amounts of power. So much researchers have shown these data centers are drying up vast areas around the centers.
The techno-fascists are in all sorts of business, that's not special for AI. The problem is with AI the techno-fascists aren't regulated in any way.
Neither how their data centers impact the environment and the electric grid, or how AI has actual bad effects for their customers, because there is no regulation on the use or supply of AI services.