Which AI models, though? Your synthetic text extruder LLMs that can't accurately surpass humans at anything unless you train them specifically to do that and which are kinda shite even then unless you look at it exactly the right way? Or that fabled brain simulation AI that doesn't even exist?

Instead, he prefers to describe future AI systems as a "country of geniuses in a data center," [...] [and] that such systems would need to be "smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields."

Ah, "future" AI systems. As in the ones we haven't built yet, don't know how to build, and don't even know whether we can build them. But let's just feed more shit into Habsburg GPT in the meantime, maybe one will magically pop out.

You lost, buddy? Points at the sidebar.

Dark Elf you say? Let’s ship his ass to Menzoberranzan and see how the NRx shit does there.

You guys always come crawling out from whatever rock you’re hiding under for these posts as if someone saying LLMs aren’t smart makes your spider senses tingle.

It would be almost impressive if it weren’t so stupid.

Oh no! But what happened to We’re not doing it for the money but the good of humanity, and If anybody approaches AGI before us we will shut down and use all our resources to help them instead?

It’s almost as if all of that has been nothing but a load of bullshit from the beginning.

Follow up for this post from the other day.

Our DSO now greenlit the stupid Copilot integration because "Microsoft said it's okay" (of course they did), and he also was on some stupid AI convention yesterday and whatever fucking happened there, he's become a complete AI bro and is now preaching the Gospel of Altman that everyone who's not using AI will be obsolete in few years and we need to ADAPT OR DIE. It's the exact same shit CEO is spewing.

He wants an AI that handles data security breaches by itself. He also now writes emails with ChatGPT even though just a week ago he was hating on people who did that. I sat with my fucking mouth open in that meeting and people asked me whether I'm okay (I'm not).

I need to get another job ASAP or I will go clinically insane.

Hell, I really hope it’s scraping the comments too.

With what an absolute fucking trash fire YouTube comments are at the moment and Google being suspiciously silent about it, I'm sure that won't cause any issues at all.

Do they think intelligence is limited to speaking fancy, and/or having the tools to solve specific problems?

Yes. They literally think that. I mean, why else would they assume a spicy text extruder with a built-in thesaurus is so smart?

There’s a giant overlap between Christian fundamentalism and the whole singularity shtick, and Yud’s whole show is really the technological version of Christian futurist eschatology (i.e. the belief that the Book of Revelations etc. are literal depictions of the future).

Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross call it Rapture of the Nerds.

"You know, we just had a little baby, and I keep asking myself... how old is he even gonna get?"

Tegmark, you absolute fucking wanker. If you actually believe your eschatological x-risk nonsense and still produced a child despite being convinced that he's going to be paperclipped in a few years, you're a sadistic egomaniacal piece of shit. And if you don't believe it and just lie for the PR, knowingly leading people into depression and anxiety, you're also a sadistic egomaniacal piece of shit.

Creativity is a lie. You heard it here first.

Kinda off-topic, but I legitimately don’t understand why people use Discord as a discussion platform. It’s fine as a voice chat tool, but why on earth would you want your community posts on there?

It’s not indexable and therefore not searchable by non-members; the content is on a remote server and they reserve the right to delete it any point; it’s a nightmare to backup; and the client itself is a fucking slap in the face in terms of accessibility. They only recently introduced colorblind-friendly modes, and they actually removed the option to choose a dyslexia-friendly font, while their standard font is fucking atrocious.

There’s really absolutely no reason why you would ever use a service like Discord over a discussion forum, and yet people do that more and more and I find it completely baffling.