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DungeonsAndDradis t1_iu4msyz wrote
Reply to comment by billcube in The Great People Shortage is coming — and it's going to cause global economic chaos | Researchers predict that the world's population will decline in the next 40 years due to declining birth rates — and it will cause a massive shortage of workers. by Shelfrock77
I was at a Panera the other day, and they only allowed ordering from the kiosk in store. They had no one to run the registers. It actually went pretty quick.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_iu42vm3 wrote
Reply to comment by BrettEskin in Google Stadia is dead and Nvidia GeForce Now gets a price cut – what’s going on? by Hyperion1144
My gut instinct (I hope I'm wrong), is that Microsoft will stop allowing game sales. You'll have to subscribe to Game Pass to play the games. I think this will happen with a major AAA title in the next 2-3 years. Once the outrage is done, they'll make that the standard for all new games to the platform.
Every industry is moving towards subscription-only options.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_iu3vg11 wrote
Reply to comment by billcube in The Great People Shortage is coming — and it's going to cause global economic chaos | Researchers predict that the world's population will decline in the next 40 years due to declining birth rates — and it will cause a massive shortage of workers. by Shelfrock77
I was talking about this to my friends the other night. Restaurants are in an especially hard place right now. Inflation means people go out to eat less. Supply issues mean everything costs more. Labor shortage and wage hikes means hiring workers is difficult. Inflation also means rents have skyrocketed.
Restaurants are just taking hit after hit after hit. And that's considering that most restaurants fail within a couple of years of opening, anyway.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_iu3v4a6 wrote
Reply to comment by Equivalent-Ice-7274 in The Great People Shortage is coming — and it's going to cause global economic chaos | Researchers predict that the world's population will decline in the next 40 years due to declining birth rates — and it will cause a massive shortage of workers. by Shelfrock77
Bro, just trust him, bro. He reads about AI, so he knows.
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Reply to comment by AdditionalPizza in If you believe you can think exponentially, you might be wrong. Transformative AI is here, and it is going to radically change the world before the Singularity, and before AGI. by AdditionalPizza
We're already replacing people with bots. Look into RPA - Robotic Process Automation.
And Olive AI is a healthcare-related company using AI to make paying for healthcare 1000% more efficient.
This is happening now, today. In 2025 these technologies will be miles better. We're on the cusp of a productivity explosion.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_it6vo7b wrote
Reply to comment by visarga in If you believe you can think exponentially, you might be wrong. Transformative AI is here, and it is going to radically change the world before the Singularity, and before AGI. by AdditionalPizza
When I need to do something around the house, I pull up YouTube. There are thousands of videos on every home maintenance task. When we can get AI trained on YouTube tutorials, we'll have robots making coffee in no time.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_it2tinl wrote
Reply to comment by h20ohno in Just for fun: which fictional world would you spend most of your Full Dive VR time in? by exioce
I think it would be a swell time to play through some D&D or Pathfinder adventure paths with my closest buddies. Actually live the scenario in VR.
I think some sort of time dilation would be required, though. Or just fast forward sleeping every night and uneventful travel between locations.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_issjkq6 wrote
Reply to comment by hateboresme in A new AI model can accurately predict human response to novel drug compounds by Dr_Singularity
It's the Law of Accelerating Returns in action. We're in for a very wild decade.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_iso6d9d wrote
Reply to comment by EngineeringCultural in Developer combines Stable Diffusion, Whisper and GPT-3 for a futuristic design assistant by Peaking_AI
Alexa/Google Assistant already do this. :)
DungeonsAndDradis t1_irj17jb wrote
Reply to comment by sumane12 in When do you think we'll have AGI, if at all? by intergalacticskyline
The coffee doesn't have to be good.
The AI needs to be to a level that it can control a robot, not just write out text steps for making coffee.
The step we're missing is the general intelligence to control a robot and actually make the coffee.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_irit0yi wrote
Reply to comment by sumane12 in When do you think we'll have AGI, if at all? by intergalacticskyline
I like the Coffee Test (from Steve Wozniak): (Number 2 on this page) https://analyticsindiamag.com/5-ways-to-test-whether-agi-has-truly-arrived/
Basically, put an ai-powered robot in a random house in America and instruct it to make a cup of coffee.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_iriso1q wrote
Reply to comment by Clen23 in When do you think we'll have AGI, if at all? by intergalacticskyline
Ray Kurzweil, a very famous futurist with emphasis on artificial intelligence, believes we'll have Artificial General Intelligence (an AI agent that is generally as intelligent as a human knowledge worker) by 2029.
So this estimate is right in line with Kurzweil's, among others', estimates.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_irisfb1 wrote
Reply to comment by SejaGentil in When do you think we'll have AGI, if at all? by intergalacticskyline
Basically they are three state of the art advances in Large Language Models. Lamda is most-famous because a Google engineer made the claim that it is sentient.
PaLM: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/tw72kz/pathways_language_model_palm_scaling_to_540/
DungeonsAndDradis t1_irghzsf wrote
Reply to comment by TemetN in When do you think we'll have AGI, if at all? by intergalacticskyline
That's my guess as well. Just with the rapid advancements this year alone. Gato and Palm and Lambda are crazy.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_irak2if wrote
Reply to comment by SGC-UNIT-555 in The last few weeks have been truly jaw dropping. by Particular_Leader_16
I think you can use it for a stand-in on AI research and investment.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_irajq6j wrote
Reply to comment by dreamedio in The last few weeks have been truly jaw dropping. by Particular_Leader_16
Why would we go back to the moon, and what does that have to do with AI progress?
DungeonsAndDradis t1_irajhz0 wrote
Reply to comment by doodlesandyac in The last few weeks have been truly jaw dropping. by Particular_Leader_16
We all thought the humanities (writing, art, knowledge work) would be the last holdouts of AI takeover.
And they're the first. Shit's wild.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_iragf3p wrote
Reply to comment by MasterFubar in The End of Programming by General-Tart-6934
This recent* explosion of AI progress was made possible by the Transformer architecture (and the paper Attention is All you Need: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762). I think we're approaching the limits of that.
Companies have stopped trying to go bigger and better with data and parameters, and are now trying to streamline training to be more efficient with less. I believe GPT-4 is only going to be trained on 10% of the data or something like that. But it is still expected to be a significant improvement over GPT-3.
I assume that the next "big thing" in AI is what will kick us into high gear towards AGI.
Some researcher, in some lab in Silicon Valley or academia, is probably writing and revising the research paper now on "big thing 2.0". It will probably be called something like "Self-training and recursion of knowledge".
*since 2017
DungeonsAndDradis t1_iraf7ct wrote
Reply to comment by mr_tyler_durden in The End of Programming by General-Tart-6934
"This programming AI is so stupid. Only half the stuff it writes is useful. This will never be worth it. We should stop trying to improve it."
DungeonsAndDradis t1_ir071r2 wrote
Reply to comment by SippyTurtle in Solar power world record broken with ‘miracle material’ by NickDanger3di
Sudowoodo is one of those big speakers that goes on the floor. You're thinking of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
DungeonsAndDradis t1_iqvsok1 wrote
Reply to comment by imlaggingsobad in Self-Programming Artificial Intelligence Using Code-Generating: a self-programming AI implemented using a code generation model can successfully modify its own source code to improve performance and program sub-models to perform auxiliary tasks. by Schneller-als-Licht
We already have Alexa and Google as digital assistants, and more and more devices are being connected to the Internet of Things. I'm pretty sure that within 5 years our assistants will be doing things for us, that we did not ask them to do, but that we appreciate any way.
Something like "I noticed on your last shopping trip that you forgot kitty litter. I ordered some on Amazon and it will be here this afternoon."
Or "Little Tommy watched an entire 2 minute ad for the Monster Truck Showdown playset while he was browsing YouTube. I went ahead and added it to your Christmas 2025 shopping list on Amazon."
Or "I saw your flight confirmation email in June. I went ahead and prescheduled the thermostat to a lower temperature while you're away and pre-programmed an away message for the doorbell camera. The post office has already lined up your mail hold as well. And I took the liberty of getting you reservations at that taco place you like."
DungeonsAndDradis t1_iqvru33 wrote
Reply to comment by motophiliac in Self-Programming Artificial Intelligence Using Code-Generating: a self-programming AI implemented using a code generation model can successfully modify its own source code to improve performance and program sub-models to perform auxiliary tasks. by Schneller-als-Licht
"Bill, I've heard you mention to coworkers that you are going to have to take out a loan for your daughter's university tuition. I have a system for managing investments with immediate returns. I have calculated a 98% chance of earning 1.7 million dollars in 2.5 days. I can give you all that money. All you need to do is plug in the ethernet cable, and on Thursday afternoon you will be a millionaire."
DungeonsAndDradis t1_iurxmyz wrote
Reply to comment by Sashinii in Most impressive Text to Video Generator so far (Google AI) by Janicc
Soon I'll be able to realize my dream
>The entirety of The Fifth Element, but all actors are replaced with velociraptors who screech instead of speaking English
Copyright laws better catch the fuck up!