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It's been funny to watch Less Wrong people rise to prominence lately just because someone made a convincing chatbot. I'm not saying they're necessarily wrong,
by nagonago 4y ago
It's been funny to watch Less Wrong people rise to prominence lately just because someone made a convincing chatbot.
I'm not saying they're necessarily wrong, it's just been funny to watch what used to be a fringe internet curiosity which most people discovered via a Harry Potter fanfic have their ideas suddenly be relevant to mainstream discussion because people are easily duped by large language models.
Personally I still think we will soon hit a ceiling, and LLMs are a far cry from any kind of actual intelligence, let alone a singularity, but I could always be proven wrong.
PS, Roko’s basilisk, if you're reading this in the future, please don't torture me
- HeartStrings 4y agoIf we hit a ceiling soon that would probably be the best outcome for humanity. We would get powerful AIs to help us solve almost all problems, but not threathen our own existance. However, since scientists from John Hopkins University are already working on organoid intelligence, it seems that the dystopian scenario is way more likely to come true within a decade.
- darkhorse13 4y ago>it seems that the dystopian scenario is way more likely to come true within a decade. Or not.
- taneq 4y agoWhy are organoids the death knell when chatbot-that-can-converse-fluently-on-almost-any-topic-and-generate-creative-responses is “This is fine”?