Sooner than expected. Honestly, I'm excited to see how dramatically thing change with ChatGPT-4's full multi-modal abilities and plugins.

I'm all for it... in principle. An actual public-service answer to for-profit LLMs should absolutely be an option, if not the go-to solution. But given our UK leadership and their flagrant disregard of said public, I'm not so sure.

London is an AI research hotspot, which is great, sure, but that's also what I'm worried about. The current state apparatus lends itself to a culture of dictatorship by consultancy, which ultimately stifles public interest and agency.

That is human thinking. Always hurt and destroy.

I see AI as something that will enhance us humans for the better. Majority of us still act like wild animals.

Buy a few fire axes for your family early on, folks

That's a very mobile goal post you have! Flowers still do their job if no one smells them. The universe not having a point seems increasingly obvious now, no? Like it just exists, it doesn't owe us anything nor we it.

I think google is full of smart engineers but terrible product managers, their products generally suck to use (Angular, Tensorflow etc) and they cancel a lot of them. The culture is a bit broken there.

That will be available within 18 months (I'm currently wearing a tinfoil hat)

I was the first one to say how dumb this idea was. Downvoted and argued with like fuck. My Linkedin posts had a better response though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1257f1h/open_letter_calling_for_pausing_gpt4_and/je2x4zr/

I think people have this vision that Google is very capable and but the Emperor may actually have no clothes ...

No doubt their research is top tier (note that until now they didn't even merge their AI labs), but that is very different to releasing AI products. They could have released numerous products in this space, but they didn't.

Only now that they are forced to are they even trying and woe and behold they were unprepared. They got complacent and underdog sucker punched them to attention. Microsoft may have got lucky with their particular bet on AI but they are pushing very hard and it's great to see some competition.

I hope Google bring their A game but they have to beat Bing and GPT4 on price, quality and ecosystem, that may be quite challenging event with their resources

"UwU, I don't use the word "literally". I'm so smart UwU."

I'll say it again. Profit literally comes at somebody else's expense. There are ways to generate surplus value without necessarily taking from somewhere else, automation is a decent example of this. But for the most part, it's a zero-sum game.

Everything that followed was more or less a load of flowery irrelevant bullshit. Profit it's simply the difference between what it costs to produce a good or service and the amount of revenue you can generate selling it.

There are many ways to go about generating profit, but cutting expenses is the primary move for short-term profit-obsessed private corporations. Where do companies often first look to cut expenses? Wages.

Your question is not well framed. For complex matters there should be at least complex thoughts. I don't know if the solutions have to be complex but the conversations must be. To fail to do so is an oversimplification of the subject which is bound to fail.

Why do the dumbest of the dumbest in every room in real life feel qualified to comment on the implications of AI stuff on the internet?

absoloutely. This is the same reaction everyone had in my local online newspaper comments to these news.

Super low IQ people making up shit and somehow it gets to be a top comment. The (intellectual) elite is scared of losing their literal lives to AI, not their status or money.

Big Brother AI

Where will the apps be hosted? While AI can assist in creating a web app, its success depends on having sufficient computer resources to host it. For an unlimited number of successful apps, websites, and platforms, we would need an equally unlimited number of servers. However, when demand rises, so do the prices of these servers.

One potential solution is to move the AI onto customer devices. However, this approach is also limited by the resources available on those devices

That's not a claim but the premise. This is r/singularity. He is echoing the original claim that *you* mentioned and wanted to rebuke. You have not presented a cohesive line of logic that satisfies an alternative.

Luddites were trying to throw wrenches in the works of tech that was destroying their livelihood. Calling someone who has legitimate concerns about use and misuse of entirely new tech a luddite is really a misrepresentation.

This is a very insightful and accurate perspective.

I guess this kinda puts the argument "how will the AGI/ASI interact with the world" to bed as a reason not to be concerned about alignment (which seems to be en vogue at the moment. )

You have to admire the way they were willing to flip the table, if they didn't nerf bing they could have dethroned google relatively quickly

I am scared of bad change, probably you are too.

It probably makes sense from a security perspective to have an in-house AI anyway.

And its not like major corporations with AI is not much less dystopian either

You are describing some kind of 1950s atom-punk idea of the future. That future has been cancelled. LLMs perfected, embodied, and multi-modal (general or specified) will cover the theorized 70 then 90 then 99% of human tasks. It only matters how long until companies feel like adopting it.

You will have capital owners and executives with machine employees. We are not in the picture as meaningful contributors. Hiring us will be like riding to work on horseback. No one will be going to work like George Jetson.

10 minutes of meaningful human labor to give WorkerGPT some extra oil sounds like a masquerade for what is really a society supported by UBI.

Probably Ursula von Leyen?

Well, you have analog to digital converters in the digital world. This gives you binary and machine language. Higher up you have assembly language which is basic instructions like load byte, store byte. Very tedious but simple. And then you have higher programming languages where you don't have to worry about low level details, the ones on the bits and bytes level.

I suspect that we operate on a high level too, but the language we use in public, written and spoken, is lower than what we use in our heads. It's like assembly language or even machine language. I think it would be really hard to translate from English to French if that wasn't the case. Or from Python to Java. Obviously programming languages have some resemblance to mathematics. For instance the concept of functions. If you never learned the pure concept of functions, it's hard to understand it with all the other things that you have to deal with like programming tools, editor, and assignments. So I think there's a more abstract language inside ourselves, but it's part of our hardware, so we can't express it.