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I am disappointment in the AI advancements in the recent years. It turns out progress is made not for the sake of the technology and the good for humankind, but for money. Just another pump and dump...


Is this the newest form of protest after Satya tried to burn the company to the ground? Throwing the toy away and saying "I don't want to play with this anymore, it's! It's a pump and dump"?


"It turns out?" "In recent years?" It has forever been so.


Can we first define what AGI actually means? What is the criteria that something is AGI


Life, Intelligence, Pornography.

They all seem to have a definition along the lines of "I'll know it when I see it".

This leads to a lot of disagreement and moving-of-goalposts. %-/


I think the actual measure of it will be a system which has the ability to accept or reject new information, and which possesses something approximating a will to act upon the information it has incorporated.

As impressive as GPTs are, they are fundamentally the sum of the parts that humans feed into them, and they have no capability to reject training updates. Aristotle famously said "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it", and I think that once we hit the point that we're building AIs which can entertain and understanding training input and "consciously" choose to not incorporate it into its understanding of the world, we're probably pretty close.

Some might argue that ChatGPT's well-publicized political discrepancies might qualify, but I'll disagree with this, because (with sufficient access) you could easily take the same base model and continue training it on a new, contradictory dataset and cause it to flip its "opinions". It doesn't have any actual beliefs, just the sum of the training it's been given.


We are trying to. Absent first principles of cognition (which are nowhere on the horizon), we are defining tasks such that if a machine can fulfill these tasks, we classify it as AGI.

This is exactly what Turing came up with as criterion for intelligence. But now that we have such machines, many tasks we thought could only be done by an AGI can also be done by not-AGI.


Whatever is on that list of tasks though we will rationalize why it doesn't count once the computer can do the task.

"It is just doing next word prediction, duhh"

The whole line of thought is muddled thinking and not bothering with exact definitions.

Even the mental image of moving the goalpost is wrong because we haven't bothered to define the goalpost or even what game we are talking about.


It all boils down to what the marketing department wants.


I am 27 and I feel like I am at that stage of my life. Only recently I started becoming self aware of my hedonism way of living. I get that high from getting the next shiny thing and after a week, I start seeking the next material thing I want to get. I feel lost and unfulfilled


A typo has misled you, hedonism and the hedonic treadmill are separate concepts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill


Another way to look at it is how much money can you set aside for any situation. Be it SV but living in a tiny apartment or elsewhere, make sure to save money no matter what so you can always have the freedom to move out of a bad situation


I guess this is the start of governments starting to regulate AIs


This is just a letter that someone sent the FTC, it is not the FTC actually doing anything.


We need global regulation and treaties regarding AI, pronto.


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