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First AI thing that’s made me feel a bit of derealization… …and this is the worst the capabilities will ever be. Watching the video created a glimmer of doubt
by brotchie 1y ago
First AI thing that’s made me feel a bit of derealization…
…and this is the worst the capabilities will ever be.
Watching the video created a glimmer of doubt that perhaps my current reality is a future version of myself, or some other consciousness, that’s living its life in an AI hallucinated environment.
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- curwin 1y agoSame, even worse that the world was generated on the fly—nobody even hand-crafted it. That makes it even more depressing.
- drstewart 1y ago... so like the real world?
- thatfrenchguy 1y agoI mean, Minecraft worlds are generated on the fly and they've unleashed quite a it of creativity in children
- simianparrot 1y agoThe same argument can be used for anything. Personal jetpacks are the worst they’ll ever be. Doesn’t mean they’re any close to being useful.
- delusional 1y agoIt's also just wrong. Plenty of things get worse.
- crossbody 1y agoNot really. E.g. clay tablets, physical books will not be meaningfully better.
- suddenlybananas 1y agoYes, but they're not going to get any worse.
- crossbody 1y ago"not getting worse" is a pretty low bar
- simianparrot 1y agoWhich is precisely my point. It's the _lowest_ bar possible.
- yencabulator 1y agoBooks are printed on worse paper these days that doesn't last as long.
- Workaccount2 1y agoWhile true, it's the speed of improvement that gives the statement gravity.
- westoncb 1y agoThe difference is the incentive to improve, and actual present rate of improvement, for models like this is far higher than it is for jetpacks. (That and certain intrinsic features at least suggest the route to improvement is roughly "more of the same," vs "needs massive unknown breakthrough".)
- r0fl 1y agoTrillions of dollars are not being invested in making jet packs any better Your comparison is incorrect
- rkozik1989 1y agoYou say assuming money is limitless and investor patience for returns is endless.
- dragonwriter 1y agoAnd if trillions of dollars were being invested in that, it would mean lots of investors being disappointed in a few years, not that jet packs were close to being useful. Not sure if that's what you are trying to say about AI, or not.
- ekianjo 1y ago> Personal jetpacks are the worst they’ll ever be Have they become better over the past 20 years?
- danvoell 1y agoMy take as well. Feels like something that is going to be plugged into my brain when I'm drooling in a nursing home.
- RALaBarge 1y agoThink of all of the suffering it will prevent
- dlivingston 1y agoLiterally, The Matrix. (I just rewatched the first one for the first time in a decade and forgot how damn good of a movie it is.)
- MarkusQ 1y ago> First AI thing that’s made me feel a bit of derealization… > …and this is the worst the capabilities will ever be. I guess if this bothers you (and I can see how it might) you can take some small comfort in thinking that (due to enshitification) this could in fact be the _best_ the capabilities will ever be.
- Philpax 1y agoOnce it has been proven to be possible, other companies [1][2][3] can and will reproduce it, and will attempt to push the frontier. As far as we know, there's no bottleneck that's stalling development here. [1]: https://www.worldlabs.ai/ https://www.worldlabs.ai/ [2]: https://wayfarerlabs.ai/ https://wayfarerlabs.ai/ [3]: https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-models https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-mode...
- dandellion 1y agoI suggest you go to google/bing/whatever floats your boat and search "it will only get better" then filter results earlier than 2010. Things that I just found that were going to "only get better": - Google search - Web browsers - Web content - Internet Explorer - Music - Flight process at Mosul airport - Star Wars
- dist-epoch 1y agoGoogle search is better. It's just that now you ask the LLM what you want to find out.
- zanellato19 1y agoGoogle search is absolutely not better.
- konart 1y agoDepends on a perspective though.
- iammrpayments 1y agoI was going to say it was maybe better for advertisers but the auction has gone up and the dashboard has much less data due to legal restrictions
- Philpax 1y agoThose are worse due to economic and cultural reasons, not technological reasons. The technology itself will only get better. (Also, implying that music has gotten worse is a boomer-ass take. It might not be to your liking, but there's more of it than ever before, and new sonic frontiers are being discovered every day.)
- x187463 1y agoNone of those have a quantifiable definition of 'better'. The current range of AI models have very easily measured metrics.
- torginus 1y agoIf it helps, if you look at the biology of human vision, you find out things like the width of your cone of sharp vision is about 2 degrees, or the size of your thumb held out at arms length. Due to this physical limitation, what you 'see' in front of you, widely accepted as ground truth reality, cannot possibly real, its a hallucination produced by your brain. Your brain, compared to the sensory richness of reality you experience around you, has very limited direct inputs from the outside world, it must construct a rich internal model based on this. It's very weird (at least to me), that the boundary between reality and assumption (basically educated guessing) is very arbitrary, and definitely only exists in our heads.
- remir 1y agoThat's pretty much the basis for the simulation theory. See also "My Big TOE" (Theory of Everything) from Tom Campbell.
- swax 1y agoIt's an unsettling feeling as what's more complicated - all the atoms and galaxies, trillions of life forms, the unimaginable distances of our universe OR a relatively simple world model that is our conscious experience and nothing else.
- j_timberlake 1y agoNo it's good, you're ahead of the curve, most people aren't there yet. The next step is to realize that, if life is a cheap simulation, not everyone might have... uh... fully simulated minds. Player Characters vs NPCs is what gamers would say, though it doesn't have to be binary like that, and the term NPC has already been ruined by social media rants. (Also, NPC is a bad insult because most of the coolest characters in games are NPC rivals or bosses or whatnot.)