It’s grifting, pure and simple. All those things may be possible but Sam Altman is spewing this line of bullshit to keep the venture capital flowing into his company.
Exactly. As a SW engineer, I don’t know how far we are from an AGI exactly, but I am confident enough Altman and openAi have no idea where to even start.
As a SW engineer
I read that and immediately thought of you working in a Star Wars hangar, fixing rebel ships
That sounds like the general consensus from most SW engineers.
As a software engineer that works in AI, the “breakthrough” we’ve made is in proving that LLM’s can perform well at scale, and that hallucinations aren’t as big a problem as initially thought. Most tech companies didn’t do what OpenAI did because hallucinations are brand-damaging, whereas OpenAI didn’t give a fuck. In the next few years, all existing AI systems will be through LLM’s, and probably as good at ChatGPT.
We might make more progress now that researchers and academics see the value in LLM’s, but my weakly held opinion is that it’s mostly surrounded by hype.
We’re nowhere near what most would call AGI, although to be blunt, I don’t think the average person on here could truly tell you what that looks like without disagreeing with AI researchers.
and probably as good at ChatGPT
We are so fucked.
In Venice he never claims that he will be the one to do these things, at least in that tweet he doesn’t claim to be the one that’s going to do those things.
I’m not sure what the line about creating new realities means. I assume he means VR and not that AI is going to give us the ability to access hyperspace or something.
It’s probably cocaine
Cokeium
cokaina… todays topic, slavery
Hyping up the stock price.
The current state of capitalism will ensure the second line never sees the light of day
deregulated capitalism is a curse on society
Said looking at one regulated to almost mercantilist levels.
Are you stupid?
I don’t think so.
What, it seems stupid to you that monopolies created using copyright and patent laws designed to benefit domestic companies I call mercantilism? Bailing out companies “too big to fail” is regulation too. Health in USA is so expensive because it’s regulated to work this way.
There are plenty of regulations, just not those you’d want, too bad.
We can already create enough abondance that no human starves, sleep outside or can’t affotd medical treatment. Still look at the world.
Why bother to let humans live if they are not profitable enough for the megacorps? That almost sounds like work.
No no, they’re desperately looking for that, because gating infinite abundance away from the plebs will be amazing for quarterly profits and entertainment! Think of all the reality shows you can make by pitting the poor against themselves!
We already have that abundance. It’s just waiting to be liberated.
Abundance is already here, tons of food are destroyed and thrown out when they accidentally make too much while people are starving, there’s no money in abundance, it’s the artificial lack of supply that keeps prices high and profits soaring.
Food isn’t the only resource in the equation. Most of the resources are limited and even diminishing.
I agree but I think their point was more along the lines of “Even if we have complete abundance of everything (as in, the capabilities to produce anything in abundance), capitalists will continue to create artificial lack of supply to continue profiting off of the workers. For example, look at the food abundance we have”
capitalists will continue to create artificial lack of supply
I think it’s not that, but just:
capitalists won’t spend their money to create logistical chains for free.
“Collect and distribute supply” won’t do itself, someone should do that. And noone will do that for free
Approximately 1/3 of all food produced is wasted.
Have you read Ishmael?
It’s just bait for investors. This is the kind of crap that gets people with money and zero understanding of computers to buy stocks.
The thing that keeps us from living lives of abundance is not a lack of technology.
These people are frauds.
This reads like Musk promising everyone that his imaginary train will be faster and cheaper than everything else.
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Every rich tech bro has convince themselves they are the savior of the world.
Great… And and will this abundance be shared or hoarded for profit like everything else that is abundant already is?
Yes
Just put it in chatgpt I’m sure it will figure it all out
The first paragraph? Can’t say I disagree.
Second paragraph? Delusional. Or actively deceitful. Given Altman’s background, I’m leaning toward the second.
We already have abundance at scale; the rest is just greed and logistics
It’s enough to look at how much stuff is available in a supermarket, or in the average, home, to know we live in an age of abundance. The problem is, is that abundance is not shared, but hoarded.
We have enough food to feed the world, we have enough production for everyone in the world to have a smartphone and internet access and electricity. We can make clothes for everyone, we can home everyone. We have enough healthcare for everyone.
By an objective measure, we have abundance, we have enough. The world is just severely mismanaging our resources and the distribution of them. Because the economy doesn’t work for humans, instead humans work for the economy.
Cure all human disease?
Paragraphs are bodies of text. So the second paragraph in this scenario is the one where we are only a few breakthroughs away.
Words are a series of letters.
He agrees that we can cure all human disease? That’s silly.
Sure. Just need to get a bunch of trillions hoarded away by billionaires and throw it at R&D to solve these problems and I bet it would happen.
These rich fuckers making proclamations like that yet somehow still expecting someone else to pay for the solutions.
He’s not wrong. He’s probably not going to be the guy leading the charge on any of that but he’s not wrong.
He’s forgetting about the part where it’ll be monetized in such a way that only the rich will benefit.
Check again. He never said it wouldn’t!
He’s not forgetting: that’s what he’s proposing!
You’re not exactly wrong but at the same time we all benefited from the invention of say electricity or computing. If they do invent fusion or something I’m sure we’ll get benefits. Maybe not free power but at the very least that allow us to buy it.
With access to that much power we could desalinate seawater on an industrial scale or power some of the carbon capture technologies. It will make things better.
Opium.
