Seriously, if ChatGPT could get internet access alongside an embedded app in your smartphone we’d have this right now practically. Although I believe OpenAI says giving it internet access right now is risky.

Eventually it’s going to be impossible to keep up with everything happening around us. I wouldn’t worry too much about keeping up with every little thing. Pretty soon you will have an AI that can give you all new information as a personal assistant.

Software optimization plays a massive role though too, Stable Diffusion, OpenAI Five and AlphaZero were able to achieve the same performance on only a fraction of the required hardware they initially needed to run, the human brain can’t really do that. Assuming we do eclipse the power the brain via hardware soon, it’ll be quick that AGI shoots right past the human learning speed. Not only that, we’ll be giving it every initial GPU it needs until it can design it’s own hardware for itself.

I’d agree it won’t be instant, but it ain’t taking 20-30 years. The writing is on the wall.

I’ve been saying it’s going to be a hard takeoff for 8 years now and everyone thought I was nuts. There’s no reason to assume an AGI would take as long to learn things just because the human brain does. Even Kurzweil is wrong here.

Writing is on the wall guys, we don’t have to wait until 2045.

The Genie is out of the bottle 🧞‍♂️

That’s what I think, everything else is philosophical.

Well it’s a good thing I’m a posthumanist then. Seriously, the Singularity is going to give you total control of your mental state, just switch off boredom and never worry about it again brah.

Sorry man, traditionalists just cannot win =]

I really doubt most of them are gonna hold out without flip-flopping.

I would think so, De Grey thinks there’s a good chance aging will be cured by 2030. It’ll be useful for people near death but I think the majority of people will migrate off biology.

Right, but they’re talking about the diseases of aging. They view those diseases as separate from aging when they aren’t. The vast majority of conditions post 65 years of age are due to the body gradually breaking down past that point. The fix for that is keeping people young and healthy.

Any form of augmentation in general. Once AGI gets into a into a feedback loop of self improvement there’s really not going to be any chance for medical science led by humans that will be able to outpace it at that point.

I wouldn’t worry, that position will go away pretty quickly once the tech is here.

And the promise is huge: Not to help the wealthy to live to 200, but instead provide millions worldwide the prospect of lives that don’t end with a decade or more of chronic illness.

Taps shoulder Sky News, chronic illness is caused by aging. You can’t have one without the other. Sorry to trample on your worship of the tradition of aging but it’s going the way of the Dodo. You can solve chronic illness with a pristinely maintained body, biological immortality is just a side effect of that, as De Grey puts it.

Ageism really is a religion to these people. Anyway, AI is moving so fast these days I doubt any form of biological LEV tech will be used at all.

This, OP needs to realize everyone was afraid of the railroad industry as well.

This, I think the data will be there still but Social Media as we know it will have run it’s course. Our consciousness might go under such a profound expansion we wouldn’t have use for Twitter, Facebook or Reddit anymore.

I think the current incarnation of Social Media as we know it is going to die off.

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To be fair, there is a Simpsons episode about everything.

You are an absolute chad

Thanks for that, I needed a good laugh today.

Take a minute to look around the world and see what humanity has done, our governments and rich overlords treat their people like expendable cattle being forced to live paycheck to paycheck, Amazon workers can barely take a piss, police harass the homeless just for being poor, powerful old men take swaths of young men away from their families to go die or get crippled a pointless war (look no further than Putin), the environment is crumbling at an accelerating rate and the U.S., Chinese and Russian governments are all adamant about using coal to save on costs at the expense of causing another mass extinction not just of animal life but of billions of humans living in hotter regions, people’s individual rights over their own bodies are being revoked at the hands of men with religious convictions, it’s all about controlling other people.

Agree or not with Q’s antics aboard the Enterprise, he was right about humanity being a savage child race. Humanity can surely do better, but being a reactionary isn’t how a species gets there. AGI is coming and the best course of action is to merge with it. I believe shedding our biological selfish tendencies will be far more beneficial than the world we have now.

I worry greatly about the alignment problem, I worry that human beings will create an existential crisis in order to stay in power.

The sooner humans aren’t running the planet the better.

I disagree, it’s desirable. Humanity isn’t really doing a good job running this planet so far. Humans are driven by greed, hierarchy and tribalism.

Humans hate to admit it but we are still apes.

Doesn’t matter, it’s happening wether you like it or not.

Godspeed, hopefully we’ll be able to cure any disease soon. Nobody should have to suffer anymore.

I really doubt a large scale quantum computer will exist by the time AGI gets here. It’s still going to be quite a while until they can handle basic calculations.

Shut the fuck up Shelfrock, you have no room to talk when you believe in spiritual woo bullshit.