| ▲ | keyle 7 hours ago |
| I'd help build Gas City and Gas State, and Gas Country if that would mean we actually would solve the things AI promised to solve. All sickness, famine, wealth ... The problem is, we're just fidgeting yolo-fizzbuzz ad nauseam. The return on investment at the moment is probably one of the worst in the history of human investments. AI does improve over time, still today, but we're going to run out of planet before we get there... |
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| ▲ | ViscountPenguin 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| As of yet, the AI models doing important work are still pretty specialized. I'd be happy to pitch in to run something like an open source version of alpha-fold, but I'm not aware of any such projects. I have trouble seeing LLMs making meaningful progress on those frontiers without reaching ASI, but I'd be happy to be wrong. |
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| ▲ | Terr_ an hour ago | parent [-] | | I think part of the problem/difference is that all "important work" needs to be auditable and understood by humans. We need to be able to fix bugs, and not just roll the dice and hoping that a lack of symptoms means everything is cured. |
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| ▲ | toephu2 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| AI can't even find a cure for the common cold. |
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| ▲ | soulofmischief 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The Wright brothers are idiots, if it were me I'd have made a supersonic jet from the get go and not waste my time mucking around with prototypes. |
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| ▲ | ncruces an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The prototype phase meant data centers are now measured in MW instead of TFLOPS. At a time where we were desperate to reduce emissions, data centers now consume around 20% of the energy consumed by the entire aviation sector, with consumption is rising at 15% YoY. Never mind the water required to cool them, or the energy and resources required to build them, the capital allocation, and the opportunity cost of not allocating all of that to something else. And this is, your words, the prototype phase. | |
| ▲ | jpfromlondon 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | the Wright brothers sold me a subscription to a supersonic jet and I've got a bundle of matchsticks and some canvas. | |
| ▲ | ares623 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | We were promised supersonic jets today or very soon though and our economies have been held hostage waiting for that promise. | | |
| ▲ | eru 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The passive voice is doing a lot of work in your sentence. | | |
| ▲ | troupo 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | We are perpetually just months away from software jobs being obsolete. AGI was achieved internally at OpenAI a year ago. Multiple companies have already re-hired staff they had fired and replaced with AI. etc. | | |
| ▲ | soulofmischief 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Your problem is thinking that hype artists, professionals and skeptics are all the same voice with the same opinion. Because of that, you can't recognize when sentiment is changing among the more skeptical. | | |
| ▲ | troupo 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | You are responding to some voices in your head, not to the context of the conversation. You're also presuming too much about what I'm thinking and being dead wrong about that. |
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| ▲ | soulofmischief 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The first recorded supersonic flight was in 1947. | | |
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