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When everything is AI, nothing is... (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 10 points 2 months ago* (9 children)

It's kinda crazy how far we've come and how normal it seems to everyone. I remember in like 2016 playing around with neural nets as like a fun coding project. If you asked anyone then most thought even our current level of AI capability wouldn't be until like the later half of this century at best. If you just picked up a random open source model now and transported it then most people would think it was legit just a person on the other side texting you back, either that or they would have their absolute socks blown off in amazement.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    wouldn't be until like the later half of this century at best.

    I wonder if it would have accelerated so fast of it wasn't so applicable to the intelligence services in mass surveillance and target acquisition

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    That's all new. The moment I knew we were all fucked was when I first played with chatGPT 3 near the end of 2020. I was trying to tell people then. Shit, even now but the vast majority just see AI as a stupid useless toy poisoning their FYP with junk content. The vast majority of people still seem totally unaware of what's going on.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think the real threat of AI is not that it's getting smarter, but that it's demonstrably making us dumber. Who is going to be creating the training data of the future?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    I think you just answered your own question. In the scenario of ASI, who is training an AI smarter than an AI that's already smarter than us? Also I don't suspect AI will continue to be as inefficient as it is today in training or inference. A good example are voice clones that went from needing hours of audio to just 30 seconds of training data. On top of that synthetic data has been more than useful, aka data created by an AI to train another. One of my earliest projects was for a client who couldn't give us any data to work on but gave us a breakdown of what the data was like so we just lorem ipsumed our way there to a model that could actually find their false negatives and false positives in their testing.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I was in high school in 2007, and I pissed off most of my computer science class by saying that in 20 years, programming won't be a job anymore, because our bosses will just be able to tell a computer what they want it to do with plain english language.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    You were ahead of me, I still thought it was far fetched until I played with chatGPT 3 at the end of 2020. NN were still mostly shit and training them was shit but the transformer was the big breakthrough. There was gold in them there hills and I knew it was only a matter of time until everyone and their grandma was in the gold rush.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's a chatbot with a decent search engine built into it so it can occasionally give you precise information. Even then I'd make fun of what we have now.

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