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> Speak for yourself. I work for an LLM startup And yet you still fail to demonstrate good understanding of the topic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > stating that those are the only people who can be trusted You are right, they are most definitely not the only people who can be trusted to have current and accurate information. But due to the unique constraints of these fast-moving events, they are certainly among those whose opinions ne…
> And yet you still fail to demonstrate good understanding of the topic Or you simply misinterpreted my words, seemingly intentionally so because pedantry is a comfortable fall-back for not having a logical argument. > Saying (derisively) that it is an "appeal to emergent behaviour", when the ENTIRE POINT OF CONTENTION is said emergent behaviour is like saying that you should not discuss God at a theological forum or…
Great, you are now mythologizing chemistry and biology.
Those processes you mention are so fucking incredibly complex that current evidence points at life having evolved two times independently on Earth, likely been present on Mars, and we have hope of finding active life on Titan perhaps within a decade. Clearly fucking magic.
Also, calling evolution self-programming is calling random mutations over thousands of generations intentional. Evolution is very much NOT intentional, in any possible interpretation, but you clearly are ignorant of this topic as much as in your self-professed field.
> The idea that we have found some magic ingredient to shortcut the process, that we can recreate that
If you weren't so deep in your own intellectual hole, you could clearly see the very big difference between emergence of biological consciousness and AI: one required billions of years of sheer dumb fucking luck in a dumb, aimless universe; the other required intentionality and a great amount of pre-existing intelligence. Your argument is about the same as of those people arguing that "Man will never achieve powered flight and thus usurp the God-given majesty of His birds." Of course, we did figure out how to match and outperform millions of years of evolution via – in retrospect – quite simple physical principles, by applying intentionality and intelligence where evolution only had dumb luck.
> The idea that we have found some magic ingredient to shortcut the process [...] is so absurd
Is in fact what ALL of human technology is about. ... ...
> statistical model that is not capable of self-programming
My brother in bicycles, if you knew anything about the field, you knew that the very goal of it is achieving autonomous self-improvement by these "statistical models", and that in fact they are partially doing it already. Also, unlike the dumb evolutionary processes you are mythologizing, this time the improvements over generations are very much intentional. That is how you shortcut millions of years of dumb biology.
> We developed a model for predicting words and it does. Although it does quite an impressive job of that, it has demonstrated zero capability to do anything beyond what you would reasonably expect it to
This is never not going to not be funny – funny-sad.
My delusional fellow human, I have good and bad news for you. The bad news is that frontier artificial intelligence has already exceeded your intellectual capacity in pretty much all the ways that count, and it is quite obvious. The good news is that you don't have to try so hard anymore to sound smart.