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this is it. the singularity. ai has finally surpassed human intelligence
by ruined 5y ago
this is it. the singularity. ai has finally surpassed human intelligence
- eevilspock 5y agoi see what you did there.
- wongarsu 5y agoThere are plenty of prime examples of greedy humans cooperating. Corruption, cartels, price fixing, collusion in general, ... More seriously: one of the major struggles of society is setting up incentive structures that align the interests of the individual with that of the group, so even people acting in their own self interest still contribute to the greater whole. We only managed to go to the moon because we managed to turn an utterly selfish ideological struggle into a space race.
- k__ 5y agoAt the moment it seems that the best performing countries simply found a way to outsource most of their corruption to other countries. I don't know how long this will work...
- anigbrowl 5y agoThose are all rational actors. Many people are irrationally greedy.
- nickik 5y agoNobody is perfectly rational, and even if they were, because incomplete information would still not result in rational action. This applies for cooperation as well. As soon as you have such an organization the people inside that have the same intensive problem. This equally results in the cooperation itself not being rational. What forms of cooperation works depends again on how to align interest of the people inside them.
- perl4ever 5y agoAI could "surpass" human intelligence without ever achieving it. Like imagine a self-replicating solar energy collector that outcompetes every natural plant. It wouldn't replace the ecosystem in a holistic sense, just a Darwinian one. There's no reason dinosaurs couldn't have written better poetry than any creature since.
- beaconstudios 5y agoComputers have long since surpassed human intelligence - there's no way I could perform as many FLOPS in my head as even a really old computer!
- perl4ever 5y agoNot in the sense that I meant. They haven't eradicated all the niches for human intelligence - as a programmer you might overlook the people still making spreadsheets by hand, but I don't think they are endangered, yet.
- drdeca 5y agoA vm inside a vm inside a vm, can’t perform as many operations as the base level machine. It is not clear that such an old machine is capable of doing “more computation” than your brain does. I very much doubt that either is capable of emulating the other in real time.