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nixed9 t1_jdifhni wrote

Reply to comment by ginger_beer_m in [D] I just realised: GPT-4 with image input can interpret any computer screen, any userinterface and any combination of them. by Balance-

This is quite literally what we hope for/deeply fear at /r/singularity. It's going to be able to interact with computer systems itself. Give it read/write memory access and access to it's own API, or the ability to just simply visually process the screen output... and then.... what?

Several years ago, as recently as 2017 or so, this seemed extremely far-fetched and the "estimation" of a technological singularity of 2045 seemed wildly optimistic.

Right now it seems like it's more like than not to happen by 2030.

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rePAN6517 t1_jdkinrg wrote

> This is quite literally what we hope for/deeply fear at /r/singularity

That sub is a cesspool of unthinking starry-eyed singularity fanbois that worship it like a religion.

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ExcidianGuard t1_jdkrsnj wrote

Apocalyptic cults have been around for a long time, this one just has more basis in reality than usual

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fiftyfourseventeen t1_jdlm1n7 wrote

Lmao it seems everyone used chatGPT for a grand total of 20 minutes and threw their hands up saying "this is the end!". I have always wondered how the public would react once this tech finally became good enough for the public to notice, can't say this was too far from what I envisioned. "What if it's conscious and we don't even know it!" Cmon give me a break

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nixed9 t1_jdnm1qx wrote

> Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf

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fiftyfourseventeen t1_jdnqlqc wrote

That's really cool, but I mean, it's published by Microsoft which is working with openAI, and it's a commerical closed source product. It's in their best interest to brag about it's capabilities as much as possible.

There are maybe sparks of AGI, but there are a lot of problems that are going to be very difficult to solve that people have been trying to solve for decades.

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