I thought it was going to free up time so I could focus on what’s really important. Just like all the cashiers displaced by self checkout that now wander the aisles giving excellent customer service.

Tell me you’ve never heard of solipsism without saying the word.

Why pay for research when you can compel corporations to hand it over for free?

“This”? I can’t tell if you are agreeing with me or not. A little more specificity and context is required from your response.

Lol. You think the government is gonna let American corporations make agi right under their nose without getting a piece? It’s the key to winning the next great conflict and they will leave no stone unturned to try and get there first. You are incredibly naive.

You act like these efforts are not thoroughly infiltrated and supervised by the DOD already. A handful of discrete government liaisons supervising the efforts of these companies and harvesting their research in the name of national security has got to be a given. It’s not a stretch that there’s a lab with incredibly competent government scientists working to integrate this research that has already far surpassed what is public knowledge.

Growing up the sentiment was that the military would be 10 years ahead on everything. That would put them really deep into singularity territory. Chat GPT would be great for astroturfing and reading threat assessments from online forums. I bet they have some pretty gnarly tech they’ve kept hidden.

Edit: what if the singularity’s first job was hiding itself? I’m reminded of the British code breakers in WW2 that let allied soldiers die to preserve the illusion that their codes were still intact.

And they will lack inherent human biases hopefully.

Oligarchs become regional despots controlling resources and enforcing their will through kill bots?

Ok thanks for explaining. I was tempted to say this is some sort of PR spin because I didn’t understand how you could drown and save your kids at the same time.

Can you imagine a teacher running this test on (30 kids to a classroom X 5 classes) 150 essays? It’s more likely teachers will use chat GPT to grade papers than detect fake essays IMO. What’s needed is some sort of assignment hub with these AI checking tools built in. At that point having AI grade the papers automatically for grammar and poor sentence structure would be easy, leaving the analysis of thesis to the human professor.

Was gonna say these folks are not very superstitious.

More fire?

This is really nice.

There’s a pretty gnarly precedent for what a growing superpower does when it started running out of resources. It’s a formula for Imperialism.

Too Big, SAD!

“It’s just freeing up time so you can focus on what’s more important”. You are right there is such consistent talking points that run counter factual to reality and basic reasoning that some sort of concerted marketing campaign downplaying the danger to meaningful employment AI represents.

There’s a really good short story about this. Communication based on decades and an interstellar economy based on the trade of art and technology. All sorts of backstabbing and competition amongst corporations angling for exclusive lines of communication.

You’re gonna need all the upgrades you can get, don’t skimp on yourself. Even if AI is a billion times smarter and faster than you, would you really wanna be ignorant and talentless?