• blarghly@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    When people talk about AI taking off exponentially, usually they are talking about the AI using its intelligence to make intelligence-enhancing modifications to itself. We are very much not there yet, and need human coaching most of the way.

    At the same time, no technology ever really follows a particular trend line. It advances in starts and stops with the ebbs and flows of interest, funding, novel ideas, and the discovered limits of nature. We can try to make projections - but these are very often very wrong, because the thing about the future is that it hasn’t happened yet.

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      6 days ago

      I do expect advancement to hit a period of exponential growth that quickly surpasses human intelligence. Given it adapts the drive to autonmously advance. Whether that is possible is yet to be seen and that’s kinda my point.

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          No “they” haven’t unless you can cite your source. Chatgpt was only released 2.5 years ago and even openai was saying 5-10 years with most outside watchers saying 10-15 with real nay sayers going out to 25 or more

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          Here are all 27 U.S. states whose names contain the letter “o”:

          Arizona

          California

          Colorado

          Connecticut

          Florida

          Georgia

          Idaho

          Illinois

          Iowa

          Louisiana

          Minnesota

          Missouri

          Montana

          New Mexico

          New York

          North Carolina

          North Dakota

          Ohio

          Oklahoma

          Oregon

          Rhode Island

          South Carolina

          South Dakota

          Vermont

          Washington

          Wisconsin

          Wyoming

          (That’s 27 states in total.)

          What’s missing?