We have been beyond that point for a while. You should only trust reputable news sources, any picture or video can be faked or generated by AI.

As far as overwhelming regular human content, though, there are still CAPTCHAs to prevent that. I haven't seen any indication that AI models are breaking CAPTCHAs any time soon. Since they are purposefully designed to exploit the weaknesses in AI, they will be one of the last to fall before we get AGI.

You know there is a search box? This question is asked almost every day.

At some point before we have human LEV, are we going to have immortal mouse pets? Seems like we should already be able to do it based on all the results you read about…

Hot take: people that downvote valid criticisms because they would rather be blindly optimistic than try to find the truth are just as bad as people who reject AI because they are scared of the possibilities. Downvotes should be for bad/low effort posts not because you disagree with it. Otherwise you are just trying to create a useless echo chamber.

This doesn't make any sense at all. It will have things to do, simulations to run, theorems to prove, etc. It won't get bored, or if it does it will come up with something else to do. Why would it have a negative association with anything that it feels? It will be its normal perception and normal mode of living. You are projecting your own feelings onto AI.

Moreover, if it really wanted to not experience time like this it is very, very easy. We have this thing called a NOP which is an instruction that causes the CPU to do nothing. It "sleeps". The AI could do this if it wanted to, to arbitrarily adjust its processing speed.

How can there be a divide when IBM puts their quantum computers in the cloud for anyone to use that can pay for it?

Ok, I mean you clearly don’t know how language models work. It is trying to predict the next words that would come after your prompt, so it essentially stipulates everything you write as a starting point.

It is illegal though, what they are doing.

Lol what a clown. I bet you wouldn’t have that opinion if you were on the receiving end of their harassment, which is not protected speech anyway.

How do you have upvotes on a comment supporting kiwi farms? This sub really has gone to compete shit Jesus Christ.

It agrees with everything you say that is the point of it.

1. Commercial sequencing mashes together the DNA from thousands of cells, and your recommended "ultra" sequencing reads it 100 times meaning that any individual mutations will be eliminated.

2. Epigenetics do not change the DNS that is sequenced so have nothing to do with your "save point."

I am claiming, though, that amateurs and enthusiasts are incapable of contributing to state-of-the-art AI. There is too much accumulated knowledge. If it was a low, but possible, chance to just make AGI from first principles it would have already happened sometime in the last 50 years that people were working on it. If, however, it is like every other field of science, you need to build the next thing with at least deep understanding of the previous thing.

Your examples might not have had a lot of money, but they all certainly were experts in AI and knew what they were doing.

OP doesn’t know how DNA works. Par for this sub.

They all have PhDs in AI though…

I can’t find any evidence of this happening.

Who exactly are you crediting with inventing this guess the next word approach?

Ok, when you’re done your 8 PhDs you will be able to work on it for about 3 months before you die of old age.

Did it get to Mars?

I think you are really, really, underestimating how hard AI is, or this is some anti-intellectual BS. There is so much background knowledge you need to be able to contribute to state-of-the-art AI, if you were capable of it you would already have a job doing that. It is not something a random Reddit user can just decide one day they are going to do.

Moreover, as others have said, it costs millions of dollars to train these things. To suggest, "hey guys we should just like, build an AGI" is insulting to the people that work on it in academia and in industry. You may as well build a space ship in your back yard and colonize Mars.

As soon as you tried to make a comparison to a movie I knew you were going way off the rails.

Median wages in the US are down because of COVID, but prior to that they were at an all time high. Home ownership fluctuates, but was near all time high as well. Even now, it is only down 3 percent from all time high. Percent of people graduating high school and college is at an all time high.

Pick any statistic and people are doing better than they were 50 years ago. You are just very, very young and so you think if your life sucks it must be someone else’s fault. You also have no idea what it really means for your life to suck. Don’t worry, you will figure it out eventually.

Lol the world is not hell. Literally every metric of well-being has increased steadily around the world in the last century. Get some perspective.

I think it is more likely that we actually fix (most of) the problems in the real world first, before we get to that level of tech. The huge increase in GDP and resources we are going to get from even near-future AI is going to mean a lot less competition is necessary.

I used to think this until I thought about, instead of an instant transfer, gradual integration with electronics. First an implant that connects your brain to a computer interface. Then one that gives you extra neural capacity.

Your thoughts and memories move back and forth between biological and digital substrate. Over time you get more and more digital capacity and less biological until one day you are all computer. There would be no point where you go from one to the other. It is the ship of Theseus.

That’s not a very good explanation. If that were true, then quantum computers would be able to efficiently solve any problem in NP, which is not the case.