Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now (pivot-to-ai.com)

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the end of human history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6FPzOWi0YI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260728-sam-altman-guys-were-in-the-singularity-now - podcast

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[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago

Yea.... OK can it still count the R's in strawberry? Or Xs in October? Or have a timer for a mile run?

This technology is a joke

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago

The seahorse emoji remains my favorite for showing how LLMs are completely incapable of handling obviously false information in their training data.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 6 hours ago

AI Overview special cased it, booooo

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Did they remember to cover the other ones mentioned at 4:20 in the video (igloo, starfish, traffic cone, flip-flops, Eiffel tower, cotton candy, fork)?

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