MrBIMC t1_j78z9be wrote on February 5, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Reply to comment by Sub7 in Technology in 2023 by Ultimate-A1

> All human life will be assimilated into one 'hive mind'

Not all. There will be fringe groups who prefer to "keep themselves natural". But yeah, those will not remain competitive with the rest of humanity.

MrBIMC t1_ixaogx0 wrote on November 22, 2022 at 12:52 AM

Reply to GPT-4 is Almost Here, And it Looks Better than Anything Else - As GPT-3 remains a lot ambiguous, the new model could be a fraction of the futuristic bigger models that are yet to come. by izumi3682

Aren't leaks and memos from the past few month implied that GPT4 won't be multimodal, but rather last shot at what can be squeezed from text-only model?

Most of multimodal developments happened quite recently and probably won't be incorporated into GPT4. I do not know how long does it take to train a big GPT, but I assume it's a quite long process that takes many weeks if not month. And these things are not trained on bleeding edge AI architecture, but rather at something that was approved during project planning, which, in case of GPT4, happened many month ago.

MrBIMC t1_ixakh9m wrote on November 22, 2022 at 12:20 AM

Reply to comment by VoraciousTrees in ‘Without enough Latvians, we won’t be Latvia’: eastern Europe’s shrinking population | Latvia’s population is 30% smaller than it was in 1990 and by 2050 numbers will be in decline in over half of Europe’s 52 countries. by mossadnik

I guess the rich hedge their bets on full automatization to ensure continuation of civilization.

We increasingly rolling into post-scarcity society, the only issue is that most of economic benefits are increasingly funneled towards the top, which makes life unaffordable for the most of society.

World economy and welfare needs a rebalance(as in UBI to provide surviveable baseline for a happy consumer), but I do not see it happening before things get really ugly with 30%+ unemployed.