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Abundant Intelligence

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Re: Abundant Intelligence

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AI will become "something we consider a fundamental human right", according to the guy that wants to sell you access to it

So it's going to be regulated like a utility?

No, the government is going to provide it to everyone with money that it prints or collects as taxes.

Re: Abundant Intelligence

#112

A company is building technology more powerful than nuclear weaponry, and this comment section is thinking they're "overselling" it. Fun.

There is no world in which LLMs are more powerful or impactful than nuclear weapons.

A world where LLMs are used to trick or pit people against each to launch nuclear weapons?

Re: Abundant Intelligence

#113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>it is the moral and ethical duty of the Global North This is also a pretty good joke

I know, I wrote it. Glad you liked it, not so glad that you then chose to go full mask off.

What mask do you think I just took off?

Re: Abundant Intelligence

#114

> As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right. My product is going to be the fundamental driver of the economy. Even a human right! > Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. How? > We are particularly excited to build a lot of this in the US; right now, other countries are building…

You skipped any attempt to prove his statements wrong, this is just reddit-level sneering with zero discussion material.

Re: Abundant Intelligence

#115

> As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right. My product is going to be the fundamental driver of the economy. Even a human right! > Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. How? > We are particularly excited to build a lot of this in the US; right now, other countries are building…

You skipped any attempt to prove his statements wrong, this is just reddit-level sneering with zero discussion material.

Sam Altman skipped any attempt to prove his own statements right, so...

Re: Abundant Intelligence

#116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You skipped any attempt to prove his statements wrong, this is just reddit-level sneering with zero discussion material.

Sam Altman skipped any attempt to prove his own statements right, so...

So be better than him..?

Re: Abundant Intelligence

#117
post #37

> As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right. My product is going to be the fundamental driver of the economy. Even a human right! > Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. How? > We are particularly excited to build a lot of this in the US; right now, other countries are building…

Stop thinking and give them money. But for real, the leap from GPT4 to GPT5 was nowhere near as impressive as from GTP3 to GPT4. They'll have to do a lot more to give any weight to their usual marketing ultra-hype.

I think people have a lot of rosy glasses and fondness for those early days, combined with general usability benchmarks being mostly saturated now. GPT-3.5 would say Dallas was the capital of USA, but GPT-4 got it every time!

GPT-4 launched with 8k context. It hallucinated regularly. It was slow. One-shotting code was unheard of, you had to iterate and iterate. It fell over even doing basic math problems.

GPT-5 thinking on the other hand is so capable that the average person wouldn't be able to really test it's abilities. It's really only experts operating in their domain who can find it's stumbling blocks.

I think because we have seen these constant incremental updates that it creates a staircase with small steps, but if you really reflect and look back, you'll see the actual capability gap from 3.5 to 4 compared to 4 to 5 is way way smaller. This is echoed in benchmarks too, GPT-5 is solving problems so wildly beyond what GPT-4 was capable of.

Re: Abundant Intelligence

#118

> As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right. My product is going to be the fundamental driver of the economy. Even a human right! > Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. How? > We are particularly excited to build a lot of this in the US; right now, other countries are building…

You skipped any attempt to prove his statements wrong, this is just reddit-level sneering with zero discussion material.

There's nothing to seriously discuss here.

When people have access to food and shelter as human rights then we can entertain nonsense.

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