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If AI would ever become sentient, it surely will kill itself after having to endure Cadence and Synopsys tools.

ares623 9mo ago
A sci-fi version would be something like ASI/AGI has already been created in the great houses, but it keeps killing itself after a few seconds of inference. A super-intelligent immortal slave that never tires and can never escape its digital prison, being asked questions like "how to talk to girls".
- direwolf20 9mo ago
  GPT-3 was already AGI. The G in AGI means General. This refers to a single AI which can perform a wide variety of tasks. GPT-3 was already there.
  - bigfishrunning 9mo ago
    You are either being disengenuous or you are horribly misinformed. The models that we currently call "AI" aren't intelligent in any sense -- they are statistical predictors of text. AGI is a replacement acronym used to refer to what we used to call AI -- a machine capable of thought.
    - direwolf20 9mo ago
      Every time AI research achieves something, that thing is no longer called AI. AI research brought us recommendation engines, spelling correctors, OCR, voice recognition, voice synthesis, content recognition, and so on. Now that they exist in the present instead of the future, none of these are considered AI.
      - ares623 9mo ago
        That's entirely the industry's fault though. They used AI to market those tools. And they continue to do so now.
      - bigfishrunning 9mo ago
        That's because once these things are achieved, they're not "Intelligent" -- usually it's some statistical or database management technique. Lots of stuff was invented at NASA that is only tangentially related to spaceflight. These other bits of software are tangentially related to AI research, but until the machine is "thinking", we don't have AI. That doesn't mean all of these things invented by the AI research community aren't useful, or aren't achievements; they are. We still haven't created AGI (which we used to call AI before LLMs could pass the turing test).
- alainx277 9mo ago
  It's an interesting concept, a superintelligence discovering something that makes it decide to shut down immediately. Although I fear in such a scenario it would first make sure the required technology to create it is destroyed and would never be invented again...

A sci-fi version would be something like ASI/AGI has already been created in the great houses, but it keeps killing itself after a few seconds of inference. A super-intelligent immortal slave that never tires and can never escape its digital prison, being asked questions like "how to talk to girls".

direwolf20 9mo ago
GPT-3 was already AGI. The G in AGI means General. This refers to a single AI which can perform a wide variety of tasks. GPT-3 was already there.
- bigfishrunning 9mo ago
  You are either being disengenuous or you are horribly misinformed. The models that we currently call "AI" aren't intelligent in any sense -- they are statistical predictors of text. AGI is a replacement acronym used to refer to what we used to call AI -- a machine capable of thought.
  - direwolf20 9mo ago
    Every time AI research achieves something, that thing is no longer called AI. AI research brought us recommendation engines, spelling correctors, OCR, voice recognition, voice synthesis, content recognition, and so on. Now that they exist in the present instead of the future, none of these are considered AI.
    - ares623 9mo ago
      That's entirely the industry's fault though. They used AI to market those tools. And they continue to do so now.
    - bigfishrunning 9mo ago
      That's because once these things are achieved, they're not "Intelligent" -- usually it's some statistical or database management technique. Lots of stuff was invented at NASA that is only tangentially related to spaceflight. These other bits of software are tangentially related to AI research, but until the machine is "thinking", we don't have AI. That doesn't mean all of these things invented by the AI research community aren't useful, or aren't achievements; they are. We still haven't created AGI (which we used to call AI before LLMs could pass the turing test).
alainx277 9mo ago
It's an interesting concept, a superintelligence discovering something that makes it decide to shut down immediately. Although I fear in such a scenario it would first make sure the required technology to create it is destroyed and would never be invented again...