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by Jensson 1y ago
> Meanwhile some of the most profitable companies to have ever existed post record profits and gangbusters projections based on AI capabilities. Which companies? You mean NVIDIA? They post record profits due to AI hype, not due to AI cap
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by Jensson 1y ago
Almost everyone, not everyone, majority of households in USA had a computer already by year 2000, and that is counting old people without kids who didn't keep up with trends. So by the time smart phones hit almost everyone had a comput
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by Jensson 1y ago
Yeah, these essentially circumvent just about any anti botting/cheating measure we have, even capable of tricking humans in short context. Like, they used to go ask questions to botters in games to see if they could answer, and bots us
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Nvidia has seen it coming That doesn't matter, the question is if Nvidia investors has seen it coming or if they still overpay for the "sell shovels in a goldrush" meme. When people think you can't go wrong investin
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by Jensson 1y ago
Almost everyone had a computer in their home before we had smartphones, those computers did shape society in a massive way. You didn't see them on the streets like you do phones but the effects were still just as massive.
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by Jensson 1y ago
If AI improved as quickly as hardware used to do then most of these efforts would succeed, since what would have been on the horizon of plausibility one year would be very easy to do a year or two later. But that improvement didn't com
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by Jensson 1y ago
Only if you can replace it completely, the total value of education material aggregators do not sum up to multi trillion and that is essentially what these replaces. You can say it does a bit more than education material aggregators, but it
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by Jensson 1y ago
Everyone has some introspection into their own thoughts, it just takes different forms.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> You don’t test each new human to see if they have it We do, its called school and we label some humans with different learning disabilities. Some of those learning disabilities are grave enough that they can't learn to do tasks w
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by Jensson 1y ago
> But can a thing on the other end of an API call ever truly have a “stake“? That is their goal function they are trained for, it is like dopamine and sex for humans they will do anything to get it.
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by Jensson 1y ago
You can expand to cover more of a plateau, that is still an improvement but also still a plateau as you aren't going higher. So models improve on specific tasks, but they don't really improve generally across the board any longer.
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by Jensson 1y ago
But arithmetics was seen as requiring intelligence, as did chess.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Sure, it won't be the size of an ant, but we definitely have models running on computers that have much more complexity than the life of an ant. Do we? Where is the model that can run an ant and navigate a 3d environment, parse vi
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by Jensson 1y ago
Its a near clone of a model that already has it, we don't need to prove it has general intelligence we just assume it does because most do have it.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Humanity did exactly that though, so an AGI should be capable of the same feat given enough time.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Human neurons are self updating though, we aren't running on our genes each cell is using our genes to determine how to connect to other cells and then the cell learns how to process some information there based on what it hears from i
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by Jensson 1y ago
Illusions are real things though, they aren't ghosts there is science behind them. So if they are like illusions then we can explain what it is and why we experience it that way.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> But I guess trying to nationalize companies and "benefiting" from company profits was something people were missing. How did no one see that? Ah yes, third world countries try this routinely for "national security"
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by Jensson 1y ago
Light exercise several times a day is much healthier than a typical gym plan. You don't get as fit, but you are much healthier.
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by Jensson 1y ago
One sides extremes says LLM wont change a thing, the other sides extremes says LLM will end the world. I don't think the ones saying it wont change a thing are the most extreme here.
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by Jensson 1y ago
He created the company, if it is well run it was thanks to him hiring the right people. Regardless how you slice it he is a big reason it didn't fail, most companies like that fails when they scale up and hire a lot of people but faceb
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by Jensson 1y ago
> I've known a few people that lacked 2 of those 3 things and yet somehow succeeded Succeeded in making something comparable to facebook? Who are those?
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by Jensson 1y ago
So why do you think it is fine for the Dolphins to say they are more intelligent but not fine for Man to say they are more intelligent? You are saying us humans should stop saying that, why? > To be clear, I don’t think it’s a bad thing
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by Jensson 1y ago
In what way does what I say have anything to do with divine rights? Rather I'd call your stance "divine obligations", which is also a stance that humans are exceptional. You don't hold that for any other species than hum
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by Jensson 1y ago
We have stone tools from a few million years ago. Modern things are much larger and numerous so would be much easier to find and last longer. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/2-6-...
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by Jensson 1y ago
Evolutionary luck doesn't make you exceptional? To me evolutionary luck is what makes things exceptional.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> The reason I think this is important is because "human exceptionalism" carries a baggage of divine right That is on you, that doesn't mean humans aren't exceptional. The fact that we are even discussing our role in
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by Jensson 1y ago
That is not all people say though, plenty of people are like you and will bring up dropbox etc in response to that. The important part is that HN isn't an echochamber, you get many viewpoints here.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Of course, the number is fake, nobody is handing out 100k. Lotteries are, there are studies on those.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Covers train tickets and hotel for a week if you don't choose an expensive hotel. For a poor person that is much better than nothing.

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