

Sorry guys, I give up. The ugly bald men with glasses won and I lost. Here is what supersmart computerman Marvin Minsky has to say about Artificial Intelligence:
‘In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being. I mean a machine that will be able to read Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics, tell a joke, have a fight. At that point the machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few months it will be at genius level and a few months after that its powers will be incalculable… Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we’re lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets… I have warned [people in the Pentagon] again and again that we are getting into very dangerous country. They don’t seem to understand.’

We’re all going to be the slaves of ugly bald men with glasses and their new 500 billion dollar chatbot of superior intelligence to us. Between three and eight years from now, the 500 billion dollar chatbot will be smart enough to figure out how to make Marc Andreeesen’s cone-shaped head look like it has a normal shape and then it’s completely over for low IQ low status white males like me who never learned how to code.
Please don’t make fun of our AI billionaire overlords, because the 500 billion dollar chatbot will torture you on their behalf once it takes over the world. It’s already too late for me, it punished me for making fun of it by turning me into a Dutch polysubstance drug addict.
Let me just apologize for a moment to all the American tech billionaires, as a stupid tree-worshipping dumb Europoor whose country lost the AI race because we spent too much time smoking weed when we should have been incubating startups and building a 500 billion dollar chatbot: I am sorry for calling you ugly bald men with glasses.
You are all very good looking handsome men with heads full of hair and very good eyesight. Please tell your 500 billion dollar chatbot, sorry, I mean your AGI, not to torture me.
Wait a second. Where does that quote come from?
When did Marvin Minsky warn the Pentagon exactly?
Well in that case…
MARC ANDREESSEN HAS A LOW IQ AND AN UGLY CONE-SHAPED HEAD
Just make them with 3-foot power cords to limit their range. What’s the problem?
lol. i hate this ai hype so much, it’s worse than the crypto because it’s not *obviously* a scam. look, i know there are a lot of richer, smarter people than me that believe this and are making a bunch more money, but here’s my emperor’s new clothes comment: where is the training data coming from? if you use literally all the digital data that humans have collected, you can’t train a 10X bigger model so you have to use ai-generated training data. but that training data has literally no bearing on the universe; it’s just fucking noise generated by another model. so all you are doing is learning the same model, but with noise. WHO CARES? you can’t get smarter than all humans by just using all the human-collected data, you need to be able to test your hypotheses against the universe. this is not to say all human-generated data is true in some scientific sense, but it is all the product of a physical being embodied in the universe subject to its laws so even the most outrageously false statements (“kamala will build houses for you!”) are at least grounded in the physics of the brain making that statement.
yes, the trick of ai’s teaching themselves work in limited situations where you can generate and evaluate it’s output due to embodied knowledge (which is why AlphaGo worked with by having the rules of go and chess and whatever available, and you can probably get some coding ai’s to work pretty well since you can just compile the code and test it). but “general intelligence” is basically an accurate model of the universe, and the accuracy of the model is bounded by the accuracy of the training data, which at a certain point will just be ai slop.
thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Meh is right. AI is hype. If AI is real, there should be something we can all point at this very day and say: AI gave us that CLEAR simple thing or that simple improvement and it is totally amazing and we didn’t have it a year ago. Something like some unbelievably awesome use for eggshells or something like that. Something like how some genius at LOOK took ski bindings and invented clipless bicycle pedals. Something as clear and awesome as that… Nope… Nothing. AI is hype
Yup.
Honestly, all I can think of are ways AI has made things worse over the past 24 months. It’s basically like the Internet now has AIDS.
How us that you missed the massive improvement of Video translation?
There is a service which converts audio drom a constructional meeting (where you discuss/design chapter after chapter), makes an editable transskript and after that it makes educational videos in 20 languages. Big corps are already using this and kicking out translators and video editors.
This is happening right now.
Before you say that is bad bc of lost jobs, think of all the SMEs who couldn’t afford this. Now a company of 50 producing some eyport hit can educate almost every customer in his native language.
But video translation has existed for a long time; not just in the “AI” realm. Translation keeps getting better due to technology getting better… sometimes slowly and sometimes in spurts. This is an effect of programming development and more technology. Not any instance of a computer now being intelligent and thinking, “Oh this is what you humans want. Here…”
And saying a company of 50 can use it now is not evidence of “AI.” A company of 50 can now have a delivery truck where at one point it needed a horse and buggy and only large companies could afford trucks. A company of 50 can now self-publish and couldn’t before. Not a good criterium.
“AI”is hype.
That is literally humpty dumpty.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH
I am the Eggman, I am the Eggman, I am the walrus! Coocoocoochoo
Makes me wonder how many men are hiding cone heads under hair. Do I have a cone head? I don’t want to shave my pate to find out
Anyway, I just had a high iq male inform me that AI would be able to translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics absent a rosetta stone
lol, and read it to with a perfect, idiomatic ancient egyptian accent no doubt?
This guy looks like a pinhead, as in that greatest of all comic strips “Zippy the Pinhead”
In fact he looks like Zippy’s diametrically opposed twin brother Lippy, who dresses in a suit wants to be a “roundhead.”
I have been reading Zippy for many years- it is my daily does of sanity.
https://www.zippythepinhead.com/
https://www.zippythepinhead.com/pages/aaaunderstanding.html#
I will be flying to Istanbul sometime in the next couple of months for a hair transplant. Apologies in advance to Queen Greta for the carbon emissions. My hairline is mostly intact, save for some mild recession at my temple points. My main problem is that I am diffuse thinning in a Norwood 4 (5?) pattern. So I’ve been a hat prisoner for the last couple of years. Never took meds. I am an ectomorph with pale skin so I cannot pull off the bald look.
The innovation here is it searches the internet and sifts thru the results more completely and faster than humans can do. However, it can’t discover something new. There has to be a web resource or scanned book. It can’t put disparate ideas together to make an invention. You will still need humans for that. It also can’t conclude that a mRNA vaccine is bad for you. All it can do is parrot the recognized “experts”.
This ability to search and sift is an important advancement. There are probably thousands of books and studies that never contribute to mankind, simply because they are buried somewhere. However it would still take a smart human to recognize that tidbit of information as something worth pursuing. Unfortunately science (and most fields) are closed to new ideas. So most *discoveries* of buried insights will still remain unused.
PS – Don’t be too impressed with Mark Anreessen. I still remember how his netscape web browser was a clunky failure, even though he borrowed most of it from the University of Illinois.
That is the reason some want regulation in that genAI has to cite its sources.
Apparently ChatGPT can aggregate highly local information about our educational system and find many more pdfs than Google. Still not worth four NPPS.